Yes indeed, I was the one that brought up reinstalling 2 of our hosts.
I have a deadline, so there is no choice. Those are 2 management hosts we need.
Also I never got a request, "please, this looks intriguing for us at well" ....
I could have reinstalled right away instead of trying to debug the ipa registration process. But all my other 99% similar hosts registered without a problem.....
We lost precious time also because I had to explain that the engineer was looking in the wrong direction. Not something a customer should do (!).
But I am still interested in what happened and in IPA in general, hope there is nothing wrong with that?
Thats why I also submitted some limited information to the mailinglist. It is not the first time a mailinglist or IRC is more direct.... instead of going to several support people first.
As demanded I provided an strace as well, and it was clear that the freeipa-client-install was hanging at the point as explained before.
No explanations from logs and traces IMO.
The only thing that was changed on those 2 hosts was the hostname - but BEFORE the install of the client. Which was also misunderstood by the way....