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Bug 1290346

Summary: Upgrading to ipa-server-4.2.0-15.el7_2.3 breaks data version check, breaking entire IPA server
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Patrick Uiterwijk <puiterwijk>
Component: ipaAssignee: IPA Maintainers <ipa-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Namita Soman <nsoman>
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Version: 7.2CC: andrea.veri, mbasti, pbrobinson, rcritten
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Description Patrick Uiterwijk 2015-12-10 09:49:28 UTC
Description of problem:
After upgrading from ipa-server-4.2.0-15.el7 to 4.2.0-15.el7_2.3, the data version check fails.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ipa-server-4.2.0-15.el7_2.3

How reproducible:
Consistent

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install ipa-server-4.2.0-15.el7
2. Configure ipa
3. Upgrade the package to ipa-server-4.2.0-15.el7_2.3

Actual results:
IPA server fails to start with: IPA version error: data are in newer version than IPA (data version '4.2.0-15.el7', IPA version '4.2.0-15.el7_2.3')

Expected results:
IPA server starts

Additional info:
[root@account log]# ipa-server-upgrade 
session memcached servers not running
IPA server upgrade failed: Inspect /var/log/ipaupgrade.log and run command ipa-server-upgrade manually.
("Unable to execute IPA upgrade: data are in newer version than IPA (data version '4.2.0-15.el7', IPA version '4.2.0-15.el7_2.3')", 1)

Comment 1 Patrick Uiterwijk 2015-12-10 09:54:11 UTC
Downgrading to ipa*-4.2.0-15.el7 fixed it, and allowed me to start the instance back up.

Comment 2 Martin Bašti 2015-12-10 10:05:49 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1290142 ***