freeipa

#6949 ipa: ERROR: ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
Closed: worksforme Opened by mstefany.

Closed: worksforme
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I cannot run ipa command from the FreeIPA 4.4.4 directly, although it works from other Fedora 25 systems:

$ ipa
ipa: ERROR: ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipalib/cli.py", line 1348, in run
    api.finalize()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipalib/plugable.py", line 707, in finalize
    self.__do_if_not_done('load_plugins')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipalib/plugable.py", line 422, in __do_if_not_done
    getattr(self, name)()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipalib/plugable.py", line 585, in load_plugins
    for package in self.packages:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipalib/__init__.py", line 919, in packages
    ipaclient.remote_plugins.get_package(self),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaclient/remote_plugins/__init__.py", line 112, in get_package
    server_info = ServerInfo(api)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaclient/remote_plugins/__init__.py", line 39, in __init__
    self._read()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaclient/remote_plugins/__init__.py", line 44, in _read
    self._dict = json.load(sc)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 291, in load
    **kw)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 339, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 364, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
    raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
ipa: ERROR: an internal error has occurred
$ rpm -qa | grep ipa | sort -u
freeipa-client-4.4.4-1.fc25.x86_64
freeipa-client-common-4.4.4-1.fc25.noarch
freeipa-common-4.4.4-1.fc25.noarch
freeipa-server-4.4.4-1.fc25.x86_64
freeipa-server-common-4.4.4-1.fc25.noarch
freeipa-server-dns-4.4.4-1.fc25.noarch
freeipa-server-trust-ad-4.4.4-1.fc25.x86_64
libipa_hbac-1.15.2-2.fc25.x86_64
python2-iniparse-0.4-20.fc25.noarch
python2-ipaclient-4.4.4-1.fc25.noarch
python2-ipalib-4.4.4-1.fc25.noarch
python2-ipaserver-4.4.4-1.fc25.noarch
python2-libipa_hbac-1.15.2-2.fc25.x86_64
python3-iniparse-0.4-20.fc25.noarch
python-ipaddr-2.1.10-5.fc25.noarch
python-ipaddress-1.0.16-3.fc25.noarch
sssd-ipa-1.15.2-2.fc25.x86_64

It works for me.

But I see that It fails on loading of cached API data. Could you try looking at content/permissions of $XDG_CACHE_HOME/ipa or ~/.cache/ipa

Specifically ~/.cache/ipa/servers/$SERVER_HOSTANME

Cleaning the top dir (~/.cache/ipa) will probably help you.

@dkupka , do we have the exception handled in 4.5?

Confirmed, that solves the issue. My bad. :(

@pvoborni Yes all access/reading errors are handled (cache is ignored and schema downloaded from server) in 4.5 and master.

Metadata Update from @pvoborni:
- Issue close_status updated to: worksforme
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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