Hi Everyone -
I’m running into this odd issue I can’t seem to find a resolution to. Long
story short, my IPA master was on a system that had a power failure. Upon
bring up, the dirsrv failed to start up due to a zero byte dse.ldif file.
Used a “backup” of the file and my master seemed to have came back up ok
however replication seems to have stopped working.
When I noticed that replication wasn’t working from the replicas to the
master I went digging and found this (which led me to try to recover by
removing the old replicas and trying to do a reinstall) :
replica.domain.net: replica
last update status: Error (6) Replication error acquiring replica: Unable
to acquire replica: there is no replicated area on the consumer server.
Replication is aborting. (no such replica)
last update ended: 2021-05-20 15:29:28+00:00
The above “last update” corresponds with the power outage that took down
the IPA master.
I’m trying to re-initialize the replication by doing a reinstall of the
replica server but I’m failing with the following error :
Disabled p11-kit-proxy
Configuring directory server (dirsrv). Estimated time: 30 seconds
[1/42]: creating directory server instance
[2/42]: configure autobind for root
[3/42]: tune ldbm plugin
[4/42]: stopping directory server
[5/42]: updating configuration in dse.ldif
[6/42]: starting directory server
[7/42]: adding default schema
[8/42]: enabling memberof plugin
[9/42]: enabling winsync plugin
[10/42]: configure password logging
[11/42]: configuring replication version plugin
[12/42]: enabling IPA enrollment plugin
[13/42]: configuring uniqueness plugin
[14/42]: configuring uuid plugin
[15/42]: configuring modrdn plugin
[16/42]: configuring DNS plugin
[17/42]: enabling entryUSN plugin
[18/42]: configuring lockout plugin
[19/42]: configuring topology plugin
[20/42]: creating indices
[21/42]: enabling referential integrity plugin
[22/42]: configuring certmap.conf
[23/42]: configure new location for managed entries
[24/42]: configure dirsrv ccache and keytab
[25/42]: enabling SASL mapping fallback
[26/42]: restarting directory server
[27/42]: creating DS keytab
[28/42]: ignore time skew for initial replication
[29/42]: setting up initial replication
[error] DatabaseError: Operations error: The changelog directory
[/var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-REPLICA-DOMAIN-NET/cldb] already exists and is not
empty. Please choose a directory that does not exist or is empty.
Your system may be partly configured.
Run /usr/sbin/ipa-server-install --uninstall to clean up.
Operations error: The changelog directory
[/var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-REPLICA-DOMAIN-NET/cldb] already exists and is not
empty. Please choose a directory that does not exist or is empty.
The ipa-replica-install command failed. See /var/log/ipareplica-install.log
for more information
I’ve since done several uninstalls and verified at each uninstall the
/var/lib/dirsrv directory is empty.
Any pointers on how to get past this issue would be great since I have
about 10 more replicas to get back up.
Thanks.
Sinh