My hostname was not a FQDN. After I changed it to be FQDN, and made sure the entry is in /etc/hosts, the installation continues.
However, there is still a problem. The nameserver fails to (re)start. Configuring DNS (named) [1/11]: generating rndc key file [2/11]: adding DNS container [3/11]: setting up our zone [4/11]: setting up our own record [5/11]: setting up records for other masters [6/11]: adding NS record to the zones [7/11]: setting up kerberos principal [8/11]: setting up named.conf [9/11]: setting up server configuration [10/11]: configuring named to start on boot [11/11]: changing resolv.conf to point to ourselves Done configuring DNS (named). Restarting the web server to pick up resolv.conf changes Configuring DNS key synchronization service (ipa-dnskeysyncd) [1/7]: checking status [2/7]: setting up bind-dyndb-ldap working directory [3/7]: setting up kerberos principal [4/7]: setting up SoftHSM [5/7]: adding DNSSEC containers [6/7]: creating replica keys [7/7]: configuring ipa-dnskeysyncd to start on boot Done configuring DNS key synchronization service (ipa-dnskeysyncd). Restarting ipa-dnskeysyncd Restarting named Updating DNS system records ipapython.dnsutil: ERROR DNS query for usrv1.ijtest.nl. 1 failed: The DNS operation timed out after 30.000865221 seconds ipaserver.dns_data_management: ERROR unable to resolve host name usrv1.ijtest.nl. to IP address, ipa-ca DNS record will be incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of FreeIPA, which is subscribed to freeipa in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1769440 Title: freeipa server install fails - Configuring the web interface, setting up ssl Status in freeipa package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Setting up FreeIPA server fails at "Configuring the web interface", step 12/21 It's in a cleanly started LXC Ubuntu Bionic container. The ppa:freeipa/ppa is also used to get tomcat 8.5.30-1ubuntu1.2 Configuring the web interface (httpd) [1/21]: stopping httpd [2/21]: backing up ssl.conf [3/21]: disabling nss.conf [4/21]: configuring mod_ssl certificate paths [5/21]: setting mod_ssl protocol list to TLSv1.0 - TLSv1.2 [6/21]: configuring mod_ssl log directory [7/21]: disabling mod_ssl OCSP [8/21]: adding URL rewriting rules [9/21]: configuring httpd [10/21]: setting up httpd keytab [11/21]: configuring Gssproxy [12/21]: setting up ssl [error] RuntimeError: Certificate issuance failed (CA_REJECTED) ipapython.admintool: ERROR Certificate issuance failed (CA_REJECTED) ipapython.admintool: ERROR The ipa-server-install command failed. See /var/log/ipaserver-install.log for more information and in the log there is 2018-05-05T20:37:29Z DEBUG stderr= 2018-05-05T20:37:29Z DEBUG step duration: httpd configure_gssproxy 1.09 sec 2018-05-05T20:37:29Z DEBUG [12/21]: setting up ssl 2018-05-05T20:37:33Z DEBUG certmonger request is in state dbus.String(u'GENERATING_KEY_PAIR', variant_level=1) 2018-05-05T20:37:38Z DEBUG certmonger request is in state dbus.String(u'CA_REJECTED', variant_level=1) 2018-05-05T20:37:42Z DEBUG Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ipaserver/install/service.py", line 555, in start_creation run_step(full_msg, method) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ipaserver/install/service.py", line 541, in run_step method() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ipaserver/install/httpinstance.py", line 376, in __setup_ssl passwd_fname=key_passwd_file File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ipalib/install/certmonger.py", line 320, in request_and_wait_for_cert raise RuntimeError("Certificate issuance failed ({})".format(state)) RuntimeError: Certificate issuance failed (CA_REJECTED) 2018-05-05T20:37:42Z DEBUG [error] RuntimeError: Certificate issuance failed (CA_REJECTED) 2018-05-05T20:37:42Z DEBUG File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ipapython/admintool.py", line 174, in exec ute ... To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freeipa/+bug/1769440/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~freeipa Post to : freeipa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~freeipa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp