ipactl start fails with the error "waiting for processes to exit"

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Issue

  • ipactl start fails after a yum update of ipa packages from the previous version.
  • start fails at "pki-ca" component
 ipactl start
Starting Directory Service
Starting dirsrv:
    HIW-COM...                                             [  OK  ]
    PKI-IPA...                                             [  OK  ]
Starting KDC Service
Starting Kerberos 5 KDC:                                   [  OK  ]
Starting KPASSWD Service
Starting Kerberos 5 Admin Server:                          [  OK  ]
Starting MEMCACHE Service
Starting ipa_memcached:                                    [  OK  ]
Starting HTTP Service
Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting CA Service
Starting pki-ca:                                           [  OK  ]
Failed to start CA Service
Shutting down
Stopping Kerberos 5 KDC:                                   [  OK  ]
Stopping Kerberos 5 Admin Server:                          [  OK  ]
Stopping ipa_memcached:                                    [  OK  ]
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Stopping pki-ca: waiting for processes 18436 to exit
                                                           [FAILED]         ---> Point of failure
Shutting down dirsrv:
    HIW-COM...                                             [  OK  ]
    PKI-IPA...                                             [  OK  ]
Aborting ipactl

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • ipa-server-3.0.0-47.el6_7.1.x86_64waiting for processes

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