A storage subsystem failure below our virtualization layer caused a hard crash of our 2nd IPA Master. It will not start back up.
$ Systemctl status –l ipa
● ipa.service - Identity, Policy, Audit
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ipa.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2021-08-06 15:47:24 EDT; 3 days ago
Process: 1554 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ipactl start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 1554 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Aug 06 15:46:46 ipa04.fbog.local systemd[1]: Starting Identity, Policy, Audit...
Aug 06 15:47:24 ipa04.fbog.local ipactl[1554]: Failed to start Directory Service: Command '/bin/systemctl start dirsrv@FBOG-LOCAL.service' returned non-zero exit status 1
Aug 06 15:47:24 ipa04.fbog.local ipactl[1554]: Starting Directory Service
Aug 06 15:47:24 ipa04.fbog.local systemd[1]: ipa.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 06 15:47:24 ipa04.fbog.local systemd[1]: Failed to start Identity, Policy, Audit.
Aug 06 15:47:24 ipa04.fbog.local systemd[1]: Unit ipa.service entered failed state.
Aug 06 15:47:24 ipa04.fbog.local systemd[1]: ipa.service failed.
Multiple OS restarts do not clear this. There must be a pid file somewhere to delete. Not sure where to look in documentation or a meaningful search expression for researching the web.
Help?
Steven Auerbach
Assistant Director of Information Systems
Information Technology & Security
State University System of Florida
Board of Governors
325 W. Gaines Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32399
(850) 245-9592