Ipactl status shows pki-tomcat service is not running
Issue
- pki-tomcatd service is in stopped state:
[root@example_admin]# date;ipactl status
Mon May 19 03:14:34 AM CDT 2025
Directory Service: RUNNING
krb5kdc Service: RUNNING
kadmin Service: RUNNING
httpd Service: RUNNING
ipa-custodia Service: RUNNING
pki-tomcatd Service: STOPPED
smb Service: RUNNING
winbind Service: RUNNING
ipa-otpd Service: RUNNING
1 service(s) are not running
[root@example_admin]#
- Though pki-tomcat service is running standalone:
[root@example_admin]# systemctl status pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service
● pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service - PKI Tomcat Server pki-tomcat
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/pki-tomcatd@.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service.d
└─ipa.conf
Active: active (running) since Sun 2025-05-18 00:02:22 CDT; 1 day 3h ago
Process: 3294667 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/pki-server upgrade pki-tomcat (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 3295378 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/pki-server migrate pki-tomcat (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 3295434 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/pkidaemon start pki-tomcat (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 3295446 ExecStartPost=/usr/libexec/ipa/ipa-pki-wait-running (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 3295445 (java)
Tasks: 120 (limit: 48703)
Memory: 235.0M
CPU: 1min 5.443s
CGroup: /system.slice/system-pki\x2dtomcatd.slice/pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service
└─3295445 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-17-openjdk/bin/java -Dcom.redhat.fips=false -classpath /usr/share/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar: -Dcatalina.base=/var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat -Dcatalina.home=/usr/share>
May 19 00:02:22 example.com server[3295445]: at org.slf4j.impl.JDK14LoggerAdapter.info(JDK14LoggerAdapter.java:277)
May 19 00:02:22 example.com server[3295445]: at org.dogtagpki.acme.scheduler.ACMEMaintenanceTask.run(ACMEMaintenanceTask.java:22)
May 19 00:02:22 example.com server[3295445]: at org.dogtagpki.acme.scheduler.ACMEScheduler$1.run(ACMEScheduler.java:59)
May 19 00:02:22 example.com server[3295445]: at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:539)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
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