[Freeipa-users] Problem installing replica CA

[Dan Scott]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 15:26, Dmitri Pal <dpal at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/20/2012 12:15 PM, Dan Scott wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My FreeIPA servers were in a real mess recently and I think I've
>> finally got them into a reasonable state by cleaning up the tombstone
>> entries and fixing some broken replication agreements.
>>
>> I'm trying to setup a new replica and receive the following error:
>>
>> Configuring certificate server: Estimated time 3 minutes 30 seconds
>>   [1/12]: creating certificate server user
>>   [2/12]: creating pki-ca instance
>>   [3/12]: configuring certificate server instance
>> root        : CRITICAL failed to configure ca instance Command
>> '/usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/pkisilent 'ConfigureCA' '-cs_hostname'
>> 'fileserver4.ecg.mit.edu' '-cs_port' '9445' '-client_certdb_dir'
>> '/tmp/tmp-JwjkjT' '-client_certdb_pwd' XXXXXXXX '-preop_pin'
>> '5wVoLxO2KJ1aOlOk74mA' '-domain_name' 'IPA' '-admin_user' 'admin'
>> '-admin_email' 'root at localhost' '-admin_password' XXXXXXXX
>> '-agent_name' 'ipa-ca-agent' '-agent_key_size' '2048'
>> '-agent_key_type' 'rsa' '-agent_cert_subject'
>> 'CN=ipa-ca-agent,O=ECG.MIT.EDU' '-ldap_host' 'fileserver4.ecg.mit.edu'
>> '-ldap_port' '7389' '-bind_dn' 'cn=Directory Manager' '-bind_password'
>> XXXXXXXX '-base_dn' 'o=ipaca' '-db_name' 'ipaca' '-key_size' '2048'
>> '-key_type' 'rsa' '-key_algorithm' 'SHA256withRSA' '-save_p12' 'true'
>> '-backup_pwd' XXXXXXXX '-subsystem_name' 'pki-cad' '-token_name'
>> 'internal' '-ca_subsystem_cert_subject_name' 'CN=CA
>> Subsystem,O=ECG.MIT.EDU' '-ca_ocsp_cert_subject_name' 'CN=OCSP
>> Subsystem,O=ECG.MIT.EDU' '-ca_server_cert_subject_name'
>> 'CN=fileserver4.ecg.mit.edu,O=ECG.MIT.EDU'
>> '-ca_audit_signing_cert_subject_name' 'CN=CA Audit,O=ECG.MIT.EDU'
>> '-ca_sign_cert_subject_name' 'CN=Certificate Authority,O=ECG.MIT.EDU'
>> '-external' 'false' '-clone' 'true' '-clone_p12_file' 'ca.p12'
>> '-clone_p12_password' XXXXXXXX '-sd_hostname'
>> 'fileserver3.ecg.mit.edu' '-sd_admin_port' '443' '-sd_admin_name'
>> 'admin' '-sd_admin_password' XXXXXXXX '-clone_start_tls' 'true'
>> '-clone_uri' 'https://fileserver3.ecg.mit.edu:443'' returned non-zero
>> exit status 255
>> creation of replica failed: Configuration of CA failed
>>
>> The /var/log/pki-ca/debug file contains:
>>
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: CertRequestPanel: Failed to
>> import user certificate.org.mozilla.jss.crypto.TokenException:
>> PK11_ImportDERCertForKey Unable to import certificate to its token:
>> (-8054) You are attempting to import a cert with the same
>> issuer/serial as an existing cert, but that is not the same cert.
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: Updating local request... certTag=sslserver
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: In LdapBoundConnFactory::getConn()
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: masterConn is connected: true
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: getConn: conn is connected true
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: getConn: mNumConns now 2
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: returnConn: mNumConns now 3
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: In LdapBoundConnFactory::getConn()
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: masterConn is connected: true
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: getConn: conn is connected true
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: getConn: mNumConns now 2
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: returnConn: mNumConns now 3
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: getNextPanel input p=12
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: getNextPanel output p=13
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: panel no=13
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: panel name=backupkeys
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: total number of panels=19
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: WizardServlet: found xml
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: Error: unknown type
>> org.apache.catalina.connector.ResponseFacade
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: Error: unknown type java.lang.Boolean
>> [20/Apr/2012:12:07:36][http-9445-1]: Error: unknown type
>> org.apache.catalina.connector.RequestFacade
>>
>> So it looks like there's some certificate confusion going on.
>>
>> Can someone help? Is there anything particularly sensitive in the
>> /var/log/ipareplica-install.log or /var/log/pki-ca/debug files that I
>> shouldn't send them to the list?
>>
>
> Are you installing it on a new machine?
> What version of the OS and tomcat is there?
> There have been some glitches in the tomcat package in the past.

It's quite new - a VM which I installed 10 days ago. I tried to
install a replica on it before I cleaned my other IPA servers.

It's Scientific Linux 6.2. tomcat6-6.0.24-36.el6_2

Thanks,

Dan