What version of IPA? Are you using Fedora? $ rpm -q freeipa-server freeipa-client ipa-server ipa-client 389-ds-base On 01/23/2018 02:09 AM, Matt . via FreeIPA-users wrote: > On a fresh installed IPA server where I do a backup and restore right after installation I get: > > a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' > The ipa-restore command failed. See /var/log/iparestore.log for more information > > 2018-01-23T04:05:29Z DEBUG stderr= > 2018-01-23T04:05:29Z DEBUG Creating log directories for dogtag > 2018-01-23T04:05:29Z INFO Restoring from userRoot in MY-DOMAIN-TLD > 2018-01-23T04:05:29Z DEBUG File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ipapython/admintool.py", line 174, in execute > return_value = self.run() > File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ipaserver/install/ipa_restore.py", line 396, in run > self.ldif2db(instance, backend, online=options.online) > File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ipaserver/install/ipa_restore.py", line 554, in ldif2db > ldif_parser.parse() > File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/ldif.py", line 470, in parse > return self.parse_entry_records() # parse() > File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/ldif.py", line 460, in parse_entry_records > self.handle(dn,entry) > File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ipaserver/install/ipa_restore.py", line 130, in handle > self.writer.unparse(dn, entry) > File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/ldif.py", line 210, in unparse > self._unparseAttrTypeandValue('dn', dn) > File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/ldif.py", line 158, in _unparseAttrTypeandValue > self._unfold_lines(': '.join([attr_type, attr_value.decode('ascii')])) > File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/ldif.py", line 121, in _unfold_lines > self._output_file.write(line) > > 2018-01-23T04:05:29Z DEBUG The ipa-restore command failed, exception: TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' > 2018-01-23T04:05:29Z ERROR a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' > 2018-01-23T04:05:29Z ERROR The ipa-restore command failed. See /var/log/iparestore.log for more information > > What goes wrong here ? > > _______________________________________________ > FreeIPA-users mailing list -- freeipa-users(a)lists.fedorahosted.org > To unsubscribe send an email to freeipa-users-leave(a)lists.fedorahosted.org >

On 2018-01-23 12:16, Matt . via FreeIPA-users wrote: Hi Matt, the bug in ipa-restore has been fixed in https://pagure.io/freeipa/c/68d2fa40bc4a7454b34be4a5392cac3829a37870 in master and was backported to 4.6 branch. We haven't released a new IPA version with the fix, yet. I'll see what we can do about that. Christian -- Christian Heimes Senior Software Engineer, Identity Management and Platform Security Red Hat GmbH, http://www.de.redhat.com/, Registered seat: Grasbrunn, Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 153243, Managing Directors: Charles Cachera, Michael Cunningham, Michael O'Neill, Eric Shander