Red Hat IPA replica installation may fail with error "creation of replica failed: Command '/sbin/service certmonger start ' returned non-zero exit status 1"

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Issue

Installing an IPA replica by running the command ipa-replica-install may fail with the following error:

creation of replica failed: Command '/sbin/service certmonger start ' returned non-zero exit status 1
Your system may be partly configured.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago)
Linux ipaserver2.example.com 2.6.32-131.6.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 20 14:15:38 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  • IPA
    rpm -qa|grep ipa
ipa-pki-common-theme-9.0.3-6.el6.noarch
ipa-server-2.0.0-23.el6_1.1.x86_64
ipa-pki-ca-theme-9.0.3-6.el6.noarch
python-iniparse-0.3.1-2.1.el6.noarch
ipa-python-2.0.0-23.el6_1.1.x86_64
ipa-client-2.0.0-23.el6_1.1.x86_64
ipa-server-selinux-2.0.0-23.el6_1.1.x86_64
ipa-admintools-2.0.0-23.el6_1.1.x86_64

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