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Bug 2010195 - ipa-server-install fails while 'configuring certificate server instance'
Summary: ipa-server-install fails while 'configuring certificate server instance'
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ipa
Version: 9.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Florence Blanc-Renaud
QA Contact: ipa-qe
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 2010701
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-10-04 07:22 UTC by Sudhir Menon
Modified: 2022-01-03 08:45 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

Fixed In Version: ipa-4.9.6-9.el9_b
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Clone Of:
: 2010701 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2021-12-07 21:33:05 UTC
Type: Bug
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Issue Tracker FREEIPA-7026 0 None None None 2021-10-05 07:38:32 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-98728 0 None None None 2021-10-04 07:23:25 UTC

Description Sudhir Menon 2021-10-04 07:22:27 UTC 
Description of problem: ipa-server-install fails while 'configuring certificate server instance'

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ipa-server-4.9.6-8.el9_b.x86_64
pki-server-11.0.0-0.6.beta1.el9_b.noarch
389-ds-base-2.0.8-6.el9_b.x86_64


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install IPA server

Actual results: Install fails at 'Configuring certificate server' step.
  [1/28]: configuring certificate server instance
  [2/28]: stopping certificate server instance to update CS.cfg
  [3/28]: backing up CS.cfg
  [4/28]: Add ipa-pki-wait-running
  [5/28]: secure AJP connector
  [6/28]: reindex attributes
  [7/28]: exporting Dogtag certificate store pin
  [8/28]: disabling nonces
  [9/28]: set up CRL publishing
  [10/28]: enable PKIX certificate path discovery and validation
  [11/28]: authorizing RA to modify profiles
  [12/28]: authorizing RA to manage lightweight CAs
  [13/28]: Ensure lightweight CAs container exists
  [14/28]: starting certificate server instance
  [error] CalledProcessError: CalledProcessError(Command ['/bin/systemctl', 'start', 'pki-tomcatd'] returned non-zero exit status 1: 'Job for pki-tomcatd failed because the control process exited with error code.\nSee "systemctl status pki-tomcatd" and "journalctl -xeu pki-tomcatd" for details.\n')
CalledProcessError(Command ['/bin/systemctl', 'start', 'pki-tomcatd'] returned non-zero exit status 1: 'Job for pki-tomcatd failed because the control process exited with error code.\nSee "systemctl status pki-tomcatd" and "journalctl -xeu pki-tomcatd" for details.\n')
The ipa-server-install command failed. See /var/log/ipaserver-install.log for more information

Expected results: IPA install should be successful.

Additional info: Attaching the logs for reference.
Comment 7 Florence Blanc-Renaud 2021-10-05 07:35:34 UTC 
The error message "pki.client: cert_path missing; not used for validation: /etc/ipa/ca.crt" is a red herring, it can also be seen on a successful installation.

The issue happens because this commit (https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/commit/7fb95cc63 Parse getStatus as JSON not XML) was not backported to rhel 9.0 beta.
We didn't see the problem earlier because the move from XML to JSON was done on PKI 11+, which was included in RHEL 9.0 beta only last week.

Moving the issue to ipa component.

We will probably also need to backport the following patches related to pki 11+:
https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/commit/40f76a53f Parse cert chain as JSON not XML
https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/commit/5abf1bc79 Specify PKI installation log paths
Comment 8 Florence Blanc-Renaud 2021-10-05 08:04:39 UTC 
The patch https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/commit/d43b513927d6dd0a12464dd24287ce40ccaf33e4 Make Dogtag return XML for ipa cert-find is also needed
Comment 13 Florence Blanc-Renaud 2021-10-05 11:39:40 UTC 
Marking as POST since the patches are already available upstream:
https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/commit/7fb95cc63 Parse getStatus as JSON not XML
https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/commit/40f76a53f Parse cert chain as JSON not XML
https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/commit/5abf1bc79 Specify PKI installation log paths
https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/commit/d43b513927d6dd0a12464dd24287ce40ccaf33e4 Make Dogtag return XML for ipa cert-find
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