[Freeipa-users] Replication problems with having more than one replica?

[Rob Crittenden]

Steven Jones wrote:
> steps
>
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> 1) Fresh replica key
> 2) attempt to join with the ipa-manage-replica key command this fails
> 3) Check the 2nd servers dirsrv is running (service dirsrv status), if not start it with service dirsrv start
> 4) run ipa-replica-manage force-sync -from ipa1 on ipa2
> 5) Check the 2nd servers dirsrv is still running
> 6) On Ipa1 (the master) run ipa-replica-manage del ipam002
> 7) run ipa-server-install --uninstall on ipam002
> 8) run ipa-server-install and this seems to succeed

I still don't understand. What is step #1? You add a new replica by 
doign an ipa-replica-prepare and ipa-replica-instal. Is that what you 
mean? I don't understand why ipa-replica-manage would come into play 
when adding a new replica.

>
> So far 1 to 2 and 2 to 1 replication is running HOWEVER replication on 2 to 3 does NOT work.....1 to 3 does and 3 to 1 does. I tried running ipa-replica-manage force-sync --from ipam1 but this wont sync, yet it used to.....
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> So when adding 2 back in replication 1 to 3 breaks.....so I tried removing 3 and re-adding and that failed.....I get a GSSAPI error....

If you delete a replica you need to restart the dirsrv service on any 
masters it was connected to. 389-ds caches the GSSAPI credentials and 
re-installing a replica will generate new ones which won't get picked up 
until a restart.

rob