[Freeipa-devel] reason for re-install failure

Karl MacMillan kmacmill at redhat.com
Mon Sep 10 13:16:28 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 16:07 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 15:47 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> > I ran into the "fail on re-install" problem where the install fails on a 
> > kadmin timeout.
> > 
> > The problem is that the installation appends the new password to 
> > /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/ldappwd. This can lead to duplicate entries and it 
> > apparently makes things flip out. I just removed that file and the 
> > re-install went fine.
> 
> Ok this maybe seen as a bug, should we backup and move the original file
> on installation ?
> 
> Simo.

Nah - I think we should just have a set of re-install diections that
tell how to remove FDS instances and fix this problem.

Karl




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