[Freeipa-users] Unable to start the krb5kdc

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:04:25 -0500
James Roman <james.roman at ssaihq.com> wrote:

> I noticed today that one of our FreeIPA 1.2.2 servers has stopped 
> issuing tickets. When I attempt to restart all the IPA services the 
> krb5kdc service failed to restart with the following error:
> 
> krb5kdc: Unable to access Kerberos database - while initializing 
> database for realm DOMAIN.COM
> 
> I don't see any issues with the local LDAP database, or the kdc
> account in the LDAP database. I suspect the problem is with the
> ticket granting ticket on the problem server, but am unsure how to go
> about validating this assertion. I have not tried to restart the ipa
> services on the working server for fera that it might stop working.

Do you see errors in /var/log/krb5kdc.log ?

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York