IPA fails to start with error: Starting Kerberos 5 KDC: krb5kdc: cannot initialize realm EXAMPLE.COM - see log file for details
Issue
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Identity Manager fails to start after reboot of server.
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Attempting to start the service manually give the following error:
# service ipa start
Starting Directory Service
Starting dirsrv:
EXAMPLE.COM ... [ OK ]
PKI-IPA... [ OK ]
Starting KDC Service
Starting Kerberos 5 KDC: krb5kdc: cannot initialize realm EXAMPLE.COM - see log file for details
[FAILED]
Failed to start KDC Service
Shutting down
Stopping Kerberos 5 KDC: [FAILED]
Stopping Kerberos 5 Admin Server: [FAILED]
Stopping httpd: [FAILED]
Stopping pki-ca: [ OK ]
Shutting down dirsrv:
EXAMPLE.COM ... [ OK ]
PKI-IPA... [ OK ]
Aborting ipactl
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- IPA
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