On 2012-04-13, at 1:18 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Kelvin Edmison wrote:
>>
>> On 2012-04-13, at 1:09 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>
>>> Kelvin Edmison wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> When troubleshooting what I thought was an NFS4 issue, I have found what
>>>> looks to be a bug in ipa-client-install.
>>>>
>>>> On a CentOS 5.8 machine, I ran
>>>> ipa-client-install --no-ntp --force --hostname=kelvin-c5.<dnsdomainname>
>>>> and successfully bound to the domain.
>>>>
>>>> I am now trying to get nfs4 up and running, and found that idmapd was not
>>>> starting. I traced that back to an empty /etc/sysconfig/network file, and
>>>> ipa-client-install looks to be the cause.
>>>>
>>>> [root@kelvin-c5 ~]# ls -al /etc/sysconfig/network
>>>> /etc/sysconfig/network.orig /var/lib/ipa-client/sysrestore/*-network
>>>> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 13 11:58 /etc/sysconfig/network
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54 Aug 12 2011 /etc/sysconfig/network.orig
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54 Aug 12 2011
>>>> /var/lib/ipa-client/sysrestore/477d00fd6ff85634-network
>>>>
>>>> I looked back on another CentOS 5 machine we have, and the same problem
>>>> exists there.
>>>>
>>>> I was surprised to see that most network services were working when the
>>>> file was empty. It turns out that many network services start properly
>>>> with an empty /etc/sysconfig/network file, but some do not. It appears to
>>>> be down to the structure of the test in the init scripts; e.g.
>>>> [ "${NETWORKING}" = "no" ]&& exit 0
>>>> vs.
>>>> [ "${NETWORKING}" != "yes" ]&& exit 6
>>>>
>>>> So, is this a bug in ipa-client-install?
>>>> Can I just copy my network.orig back into place in order to get rpcidmapd
>>>> and friends to run correctly?
>>>
>>> Yes, it should be safe to copy that file back. What we try to do is ensure
>>> that the hostmae provided to ipa-client-install is reflected in
>>> /etc/sysconfig/networking.
>>>
>>> What rpm version of ipa-client-install are you using?
>>
>> ipa-client-2.1.3-1.el5
>
> Hmm, strange. I don't think this is specific to el5, you were just the lucky
> contestant to find this bug. Can you provide the contents of the original
> network file? It is probable that our replacement function isn't doing the
> right thing.
>
Gladly.
[root@kelvin-c5 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
HOSTNAME=kelvin-c5
[root@kelvin-c5 ~]#
The hostname is not a FQDN because we are growing from an environment where the
domainname is assigned via DHCP.
Thanks,
Kelvin=
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