IPA Trust add failed with the Error : "Fetching domains from trusted forest failed "

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Issue

  • When integrating IPA with Active Directory, the ipa trust-add command establishes the trust as seen in the IDM GUI but fails to complete the command execution gracefully and returns the following error.
ipa: ERROR: error on server 'hostname.ipa.example.net': Fetching domains from trusted forest failed. See details in the error_log

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • IPA 4

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