Hi,

On Thu, Nov 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM Russell Jones via FreeIPA-users <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a replication issue that I have been unable to resolve with my
> 4-node cluster. Steps I have tried:
>
> - One by one reinitializing all of the replicas
> - One by one completely removing and reinstalling all of the replicas
> - Lowering the changelog max age to 5 minutes (dsconf...
> replication set-changelog) hoping that the problematic entry would just get
> expired out.
>

The max age governs how long a server keeps a change in the changelog
before purging it (and the changes in the changelog are the crucial pieces
of information for replication). So if the max age is 5min and a replica
gets disconnected for more than 5 minutes, it won't be able to get the
changes older than 5 minutes and it will show this error with Can't locate
CSN. A small value for max age is a greater risk of losing information, and
a large value implies bigger database, bigger disk space.

I would start by resetting the max age to the default value, then identify
which server contains the source of truth.
Try to re-initialize one replica from this source of trust.
- remove the replica following
https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/8/html-single/installing_identity_management/index#managing-topology-remove-cli
- remove obsolete ruv records (if any)
https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/8/html-single/installing_identity_management/index#managing-topology-remove-cli
- re-install the replica with ipa-replica-manage install ...
Then check if replication works.

flo


>
> Nothing has worked. Below is the error I am getting, and it happens on all
> of the nodes. It does not seem to be limited to just one problematic node.
> How do I fix this? Replication has been working just fine otherwise. Users
> and nodes are replicated without an issue. The "cipa" tool reports
> everything passes.
>
> [06/Nov/2025:16:20:25.409077016 -0600] - ERR -
> agmt="cn=freeipa3.cluster-to-freeipa2.us.ep.corp.local" (freeipa2:389) -
> clcache_load_buffer - Can't locate CSN 690d206b000000260000 in the
> changelog (DB rc=-12797). If replication stops, the consumer may need to be
> reinitialized.
>
> [06/Nov/2025:16:20:25.409713350 -0600] - ERR -
> agmt="cn=freeipa3.cluster-to-freeipa1.us.ep.corp.local" (freeipa1:389) -
> clcache_load_buffer - Can't locate CSN 690d206b000000260000 in the
> changelog (DB rc=-12797). If replication stops, the consumer may need to be
> reinitialized.
>
> [06/Nov/2025:16:21:03.774688925 -0600] - ERR -
> agmt="cn=freeipa3.cluster-to-freeipa1.us.ep.corp.local" (freeipa1:389) -
> clcache_load_buffer - Can't locate CSN 690d2091000000260000 in the
> changelog (DB rc=-12797). If replication stops, the consumer may need to be
> reinitialized.
>
> [06/Nov/2025:16:21:03.775486850 -0600] - ERR -
> agmt="cn=freeipa3.cluster-to-freeipa2.us.ep.corp.local" (freeipa2:389) -
> clcache_load_buffer - Can't locate CSN 690d2091000000260000 in the
> changelog (DB rc=-12797). If replication stops, the consumer may need to be
> reinitialized.
>
> [06/Nov/2025:16:21:03.776066865 -0600] - ERR -
> agmt="cn=freeipa3.cluster-to-freeipa4.cluster" (freeipa4:389) -
> clcache_load_buffer - Can't locate CSN 690d2091000000260000 in the
> changelog (DB rc=-12797). If replication stops, the consumer may need to be
> reinitialized.
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