Thanks Flo. I have indeed done that, but I didn't start with only source of
truth and just one replica.

Will try that and report back.




On Fri, Nov 7, 2025, 4:50 AM Florence Blanc-Renaud <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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