Sorry for self-replying. I should have mentioned that we already went through:
http://www.freeipa.org/page/Troubleshooting#Service_does_not_start But it turned out that a simple ipactl stop ipactl start helped. Surprisingly, the service does not start correctly at boot time, but starting it through ipactl afterwards brings it up without any complaint. Best regards Torsten -- Dr. Torsten Harenberg harenb...@physik.uni-wuppertal.de Bergische Universitaet Fakultät 4 - Physik Tel.: +49 (0)202 439-3521 Gaussstr. 20 Fax : +49 (0)202 439-2811 42097 Wuppertal -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-users mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users Go to http://freeipa.org for more info on the project