pkidestroy is failing with error "Uninstallation failed: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/pki'"

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9
  • ipa-server-4.6.8-5
  • pki-server-10.5.18-19
  • pkidestroy

Issue

  • pkidestory is failing as below:
# pkidestroy --force
Subsystem (CA/KRA/OCSP/TKS/TPS) [CA]:
Instance [pki-tomcat]:

Begin uninstallation (Yes/No/Quit)? yes

Log file: /var/log/pki/pki-ca-destroy.20250512111146.log
Uninstalling CA from /var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat.
pkidestroy : INFO BEGIN destroying subsystem 'CA' of instance 'pki-tomcat' . . .
pkidestroy : INFO ... initializing 'pki.server.deployment.scriptlets.initialization'
pkidestroy : ERROR ....... PKI subsystem 'CA' for instance 'pki-tomcat' does NOT exist!
pkidestroy : ERROR OSError: PKI subsystem 'CA' for instance 'pki-tomcat' does NOT exist!!
pkidestroy : INFO ....... executing 'systemctl stop pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service'
pkidestroy : INFO ... removing 'pki.server.deployment.scriptlets.webapp_deployment'
pkidestroy : WARNING ....... File '/etc/pki/pki-tomcat/Catalina/localhost/ca.xml' is either missing or is NOT a regular file!
pkidestroy : INFO ... depopulating 'pki.server.deployment.scriptlets.subsystem_layout'
pkidestroy : WARNING ....... Directory '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/ca/emails' is either missing or is NOT a directory!
pkidestroy : WARNING ....... Directory '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/ca/profiles' is either missing or is NOT a directory!
pkidestroy : WARNING ....... Directory '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/ca' is either missing or is NOT a directory!
pkidestroy : WARNING ....... Directory '/etc/pki/pki-tomcat/ca' is either missing or is NOT a directory!
pkidestroy : INFO ....... rm -rf /etc/sysconfig/pki/tomcat/pki-tomcat/ca
pkidestroy : INFO ... removing 'pki.server.deployment.scriptlets.security_databases'
pkidestroy : INFO ....... rm -rf /root/.dogtag/pki-tomcat
pkidestroy : WARNING ....... Directory '/etc/pki/pki-tomcat/alias' is either missing or is NOT a directory!
pkidestroy : WARNING ....... File '/etc/pki/pki-tomcat/password.conf' is either missing or is NOT a regular file!
pkidestroy : INFO ... depopulating 'pki.server.deployment.scriptlets.instance_layout'
pkidestroy : INFO ....... rm -f /etc/systemd/system/pki-tomcatd.target.wants/pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service
pkidestroy : INFO ....... executing 'systemctl daemon-reload'
pkidestroy : WARNING ....... Directory '/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat' is either missing or is NOT a directory!
pkidestroy : WARNING ....... Directory '/etc/pki/pki-tomcat/alias' is either missing or is NOT a directory!
pkidestroy : WARNING ....... Directory '/etc/pki/pki-tomcat' is either missing or is NOT a directory!
pkidestroy : WARNING ....... File '/etc/sysconfig/pki-tomcat' is either missing or is NOT a regular file!
pkidestroy : INFO ....... rm -rf /etc/sysconfig/pki/tomcat/pki-tomcat
pkidestroy : INFO ... depopulating 'pki.server.deployment.scriptlets.selinux_setup'
pkidestroy : INFO ... depopulating 'pki.server.deployment.scriptlets.infrastructure_layout'
pkidestroy : ERROR ....... OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/pki'!

Uninstallation failed: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/pki'

Resolution

  • Create /var/lib/pki manually:
 # mkdir -p /var/lib/pki

 # mkdir -p /var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/

Root Cause

  • Directories and files were missing in /var/lib/pki

Diagnostic Steps

  • Check for the directory /var/lib/pki:
 # ll -d /var/lib/pki
  • Make sure it has the correct permissions:
 # ll -d /var/lib/pki
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 May 12 13:37 /var/lib/pki

 # ll -d /var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 May 12 13:38 /var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/
  • Try to run the command with the -v option to get more verbose output.

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