[SSSD] Group name lost randomly

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Fri Apr 19 17:07:23 UTC 2013


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 01:02:00PM -0400, Qing Chang wrote:
> at the same time on different IPA clients, group name could become
> unavailable on one but not the other:
> 
> ===== available on fisher =====
> fisher:$ groups chuck
> chuck : mri hcgrp ccgrp prgrp chuksh crdsh2 ipausers slcc
> =====
> 
> ===== unavailable on robin =====
> [root at robin ~]# groups chuck
> chuck : groups: cannot find name for group ID 422
> 422 ipausers prgrp crdsh2 slcc chuksh hcgrp ccgrp
> =====
> 
> Note in this case 422 is mri, but it could happen to another
> GID.
> 
> Just did a  "\rm /var/lib/sss/db/cache_sri.utoronto.ca.ldb"
> and "service sssd restart", the group name still did not
> come back.

Which version is this? If that's 1.9 you also need to remove the memory
cache to be completely sure (/var/lib/sss/mc/*)

> A reboot would fix the problem, but it could
> creep back some time later.
> 
> Any idea why this is happening?

There's not enough information, sorry. Debug logs (nss and domain) would
tell us more. Also what version on what OS?



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