I have a playbook that configures ldap for linux servers via sssd. It runs against OEL 6, 7 and RHEL 6. One OEL sssd is enabled and running when the playbook is done; however, on RHEL6 the service is only enabled and not running. I can start the service without incident and it works as expected. Have any of you seen something similar? I have been watching it via logs and verbose output, but I can’t find anything to tell me why it isn’t running on RHEL6. I am assuming it is some type of a race issue. Maybe I will put in a pause in my ansible playbook to see if that helps.
Update: If I stop sssd on the RHEL6 box, and run the playbook again, the services start fine. It is only after I have installed sssd for the first time that it doesn’t seem to start.
The pause doesn’t do any good.
Running the playbook a second time always seems to start the service.
Update: RHEL7 does NOT have the same problem, only RHEL6
I found the culprit and thought I would post the update for posterity’s sake. Tailing the /var/log/messages file on the managed rhel6 host I noticed that sssd was starting, but authconfig was running after the startup and you see sssd shut down. I reversed the order of my handlers file so that the authconfig handler ran first, and then the restart of my sssd service. It is working now.
I had all sorts of code to show you, but google groups wont let me post it for some reason.
I found the culprit. I thought I would post my findings for posterity.
Following the /var/log/messages file on the rhel6 managed host:
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Nov 10 15:18:58 ansibletest-rhel6 sssd: Starting up
Nov 10 15:18:58 ansibletest-rhel6 sssd[be[nspnet.net]]: Starting up
Nov 10 15:18:59 ansibletest-rhel6 sssd[pam]: Starting up
Nov 10 15:18:59 ansibletest-rhel6 sssd[nss]: Starting up
Nov 10 15:19:00 ansibletest-rhel6 ansible-command: Invoked with warn=True executable=None _uses_shell=True _raw_params=authconfig --enablesssd --enablesssdauth --enablemkhomedir --update removes=None creates=None chdir=None stdin=None
Nov 10 15:19:00 ansibletest-rhel6 sssd[pam]: Shutting down
Nov 10 15:19:00 ansibletest-rhel6 sssd[nss]: Shutting down
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You notice sssd does indeed start, but after authconfig it shuts down (unexepcted). Here is what my handlers file looked like:
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