Ah, is FreeIPA generally okay with servers being at different versions,
then? Could I upgrade by creating a new server, enrolling it as a
replica of then old server and then shut down the old server. Can I do
that as a general behaviour?

On 29/05/2019 21:21, John Keates via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> I’d suggest creating a new server, enrolling it as a replica (well, it’s 
> multi-master so technically it’s just another FreeIPA server) instead of 
> upgrading.
> If you have other servers that still work, do that and nuke this one. If this 
> is the last/only server you have, I’d restore it from backups (you have 
> those, right?).
>
> If you neither have additional servers that work, nor backups, prepare for a 
> nightmare. If you know ahead of time that rebuilding your IPA infrastructure 
> might be a slight hassle yet only take an hour or so to re-enroll all hosts 
> and reset your users, do that as it’ll be faster in many cases.
>
> John
>
>> On 29 May 2019, at 21:35, Darac Marjal via FreeIPA-users 
>> <freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello good people,
>>
>> Due to being unfamiliar with Fedora, my home FreeIPA server has been
>> languishing on Fedora version 25 for ages. I recently twigged that it
>> hadn't been updated in ages to upgraded to Fedora version 30. That
>> seemed to go OK, but now, when I try to run ipactl start, I get the
>> following:
>>
>> # ipactl start
>> IPA version error: data needs to be upgraded (expected version
>> '4.7.90.pre1-4.fc30', current version '4.4.4-1.fc25')
>> Automatically running upgrade, for details see /var/log/ipaupgrade.log
>> Be patient, this may take a few minutes.
>> Automatic upgrade failed: IPA server upgrade failed: Inspect
>> /var/log/ipaupgrade.log and run command ipa-server-upgrade manually.
>> Unexpected error - see /var/log/ipaupgrade.log for details:
>> CalledProcessError: CalledProcessError(Command ['/bin/systemctl',
>> 'start', 'dirsrv@GHIBLI-DARAC-ORG-UK.service'] returned non-zero exit
>> status 1: 'Job for dirsrv@GHIBLI-DARAC-ORG-UK.service failed because the
>> control process exited with error code.\nSee "systemctl status
>> dirsrv@GHIBLI-DARAC-ORG-UK.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.\n')
>> The ipa-server-upgrade command failed. See /var/log/ipaupgrade.log for
>> more information
>>
>> See the upgrade log for more details and/or run
>> /usr/sbin/ipa-server-upgrade again
>> Aborting ipactl
>>
>> Looking into the logs for dirsrv@<REALM>, I see the following:
>>
>> May 29 20:30:52 yubaba.ghibli.darac.org.uk ns-slapd[9839]:
>> [29/May/2019:20:30:52.917492045 +0100] - ERR - dse_read_one_file - The
>> entry cn=schema in file /usr/share/dirsrv/schema/00core.ldif (lineno: 1)
>> is invalid, error code >
>> May 29 20:30:52 yubaba.ghibli.darac.org.uk ns-slapd[9839]:
>> [29/May/2019:20:30:52.989705116 +0100] - ERR - setup_internal_backends -
>> Please edit the file to correct the reported problems and then restart
>> the server.
>> May 29 20:30:53 yubaba.ghibli.darac.org.uk systemd[1]:
>> dirsrv@GHIBLI-DARAC-ORG-UK.service: Main process exited, code=exited,
>> status=1/FAILURE
>> May 29 20:30:53 yubaba.ghibli.darac.org.uk systemd[1]:
>> dirsrv@GHIBLI-DARAC-ORG-UK.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
>> May 29 20:30:53 yubaba.ghibli.darac.org.uk systemd[1]: Failed to start
>> 389 Directory Server GHIBLI-DARAC-ORG-UK..
>>
>> Now, in an attempt to fix this, I spun up a new VM, installed
>> freeipa-server and then copied /usr/share/dirsrv/schema/*.ldif over, but
>> that doesn't seem do have had any effect.
>>
>> Can anyone assist in pointing me in a direction to fixing this?
>>
>>
>> Many thanks!
>>
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