ipa-client fails with" ERROR Invalid hostname: `localhost.localdomain` must not be used."

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The system is reporting error during the ipa-client-install:

     "2020-01-13T09:48:43Z DEBUG The ipa-client-install command 
failed, exception: ScriptError: Invalid hostname, 
localhost.localdomain must not be used.
2020-01-13T09:48:43Z ERROR Invalid hostname, 
localhost.localdomain must not be used.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, 6, 7, 8
  • IPA

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