In CA-less scenario sometimes ipa-server fails to uninstall due to named-pkcs11 not stopping.
[root@master ~]# systemctl status named-pkcs11 ● named-pkcs11.service - Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS) with native PKCS#11 Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named-pkcs11.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2017-10-05 17:39:53 CEST; 15h ago Main PID: 7348 (named-pkcs11) Tasks: 5 (limit: 4915) CGroup: /system.slice/named-pkcs11.service └─7348 /usr/sbin/named-pkcs11 -u named Oct 06 08:58:38 master.ipa.test named-pkcs11[7348]: client @0x7f66f44423c0 10.34.78.26#44637 (26.78.34.10.in-addr.arpa): RFC 1918 response from Internet for 26.78.34.10.in-addr.arpa Oct 06 08:58:38 master.ipa.test named-pkcs11[7348]: client @0x7f66f44423c0 10.34.78.26#56370 (26.78.34.10.in-addr.arpa): RFC 1918 response from Internet for 26.78.34.10.in-addr.arpa Oct 06 08:59:13 master.ipa.test named-pkcs11[7348]: Failed to parse the principal name 'DNS/master.ipa.test' (Configuration file does not specify default realm) Oct 06 08:59:13 master.ipa.test named-pkcs11[7348]: ldap_syncrepl will reconnect in 60 seconds Oct 06 09:00:13 master.ipa.test named-pkcs11[7348]: Failed to parse the principal name 'DNS/master.ipa.test' (Configuration file does not specify default realm) Oct 06 09:00:13 master.ipa.test named-pkcs11[7348]: ldap_syncrepl will reconnect in 60 seconds Oct 06 09:01:13 master.ipa.test named-pkcs11[7348]: Failed to parse the principal name 'DNS/master.ipa.test' (Configuration file does not specify default realm) Oct 06 09:01:13 master.ipa.test named-pkcs11[7348]: ldap_syncrepl will reconnect in 60 seconds Oct 06 09:02:13 master.ipa.test named-pkcs11[7348]: Failed to parse the principal name 'DNS/master.ipa.test' (Configuration file does not specify default realm) Oct 06 09:02:13 master.ipa.test named-pkcs11[7348]: ldap_syncrepl will reconnect in 60 seconds
After that ipa-server-install fails:
2017-10-05T16:31:26Z DEBUG Logging to /var/log/ipaserver-install.log 2017-10-05T16:31:26Z INFO Checking DNS domain ipa.test, please wait ... 2017-10-05T16:31:26Z DEBUG File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ipapython/admintool.py", line 174, in execute return_value = self.run() File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ipapython/install/cli.py", line 327, in run self.option_parser.error("{0}: {1}".format(desc, e)) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/optparse.py", line 1569, in error self.exit(2, "%s: error: %s\n" % (self.get_prog_name(), msg)) File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/optparse.py", line 1559, in exit sys.exit(status) 2017-10-05T16:31:26Z DEBUG The ipa-server-install command failed, exception: SystemExit: 2 2017-10-05T16:31:26Z ERROR The ipa-server-install command failed. See /var/log/ipaserver-install.log for more information
Fedora 26
# ipa ping ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IPA server version 4.6.90.dev201710031743+git7902fc9a. API version 2.229 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't think that CA less is relevant here.
I've saw such error when installer failed even in CA installation. And it applied also for httpd service.