Post-upgrade DSfW configuration fails on 'kinit -E'

Question

I'm trying out an upgrade from OES2SP1 to OES2SP2 on a test server. This server is dedicated to DSfW, nothing else is running on it. I did the upgrade through patch channel, and am now stuck on the configuration which comes up after the first boot. The step of configuring Domain Services for Windows fails, and the following output is at the end of Details:
/opt/novell/xad/sbin/ndsdcinit.pl: Cannot contact the preferred DNS server 192.168.9.4. exiting..: Bad file descriptor
2012-10-04 16:08:54 Executing .. /opt/novell/xad/bin/kinit -E [email protected]
Two things are "interesting" about it.
1. 192.168.9.4 is the IP address of the server itself. It is also the only nameserver address listed in /etc/resolv.conf. Using nslookup, I can successfully perform name lookups against this server (such as nslookup mydomain.com), so I don't understand why ndsdcinit.pl cannot contact it...
2. When I run '/opt/novell/xad/bin/kinit -E [email protected]' from command line, I get this error:
kinit(v5): Input/output error while getting initial credentials
When I run just '/opt/novell/xad/bin/kinit [email protected]', it is successful. I tried to look up what the -E switch for kinit is supposed to do, and I can't find any references to it in the man page nor Novell DSfW docs.
Any thoughts before I revert this test VM to pre-upgrade state and just hope for better luck next time?

Answer 1

The string
"The xad-krb5kdc is not running, going to start it"
does not exist in /var/log/YaST2/y2log. I searched the log for "xad" and "krb5kdc" and didn't find such line.
I tried ADM_PASSWD=<admin_password> kinit -E [email protected] and that worked successfully. Thanks for the explanation.
Below is the log output from where DSfW configuration is started:
Code:
2012-10-04 15:44:44 <1> tetris(2594) [YCP] Edirectory.ycp:3551 Configuring XAD for eDirectory....
2012-10-04 15:44:44 <1> tetris(2594) [YCP] Edirectory.ycp:208 edirectory.GetNameServer:test line: 'nameserver 192.168.9.4'
2012-10-04 15:44:44 <1> tetris(2594) [YCP] Edirectory.ycp:213 edirectory.GetNameServer(): retstring: '192.168.9.4'
2012-10-04 15:44:44 <1> tetris(2594) [YCP] Edirectory.ycp:3709 Edirectory:Executing: XADDOMAINADMINNAME='cn=Administrator.cn=Users.dc=test.dc=tlvsise' XADPARENTDOMAINADMIN='' perl /opt/novell/xad/sbin/ndsdcinit.pl upgrade replica -d 'test.tlvsise' -l '' -g '' -f 'test.tlvsise' -o 192.168.9.4
2012-10-04 15:44:44 <3> tetris(2594) [bash] ShellCommand.cc(shellcommand):78 Useless use of private variable in void context at /opt/novell/xad/lib/perl/XAD/
schema.pm line 943.
2012-10-04 15:44:44 <3> tetris(2594) [bash] ShellCommand.cc(shellcommand):78 Useless use of private variable in void
context at /opt/novell/xad/lib/perl/XAD/schema.pm line 943.
2012-10-04 15:44:57 <3> tetris(2594) [bash] ShellCommand.cc(shellcommand):78 /opt/novell/xad/sbin/ndsdcinit.pl: Cannot contact the preferred DNS server 192.1
68.9.4. exiting..: Bad file descriptor
2012-10-04 15:44:57 <1> tetris(2594) [YCP] Edirectory.ycp:3718 xad:exit code for ndsdcinit.pl is 9
2012-10-04 15:44:57 <1> tetris(2594) [YCP] Edirectory.ycp:3760 ndsdcinit cmd output exit code: 9
2012-10-04 15:44:57 <3> tetris(2594) [Interpreter] Edirectory.ycp:3761 Can't convert value '"2012-10-04 15:44:44 Executing .. /opt/novell/xad/bin/kinit -E Ad
[email protected]\n"' to type 'const integer'
2012-10-04 15:44:57 <1> tetris(2594) [YCP] Edirectory.ycp:3761 ndsdcinit cmd output exit srdout: <NULL>
2012-10-04 15:44:57 <1> tetris(2594) [YCP] Edirectory.ycp:3762 ndsdcinit cmd output exit stderr: 0
2012-10-04 15:44:57 <3> tetris(2594) [YCP] Edirectory.ycp:3771 Failed to configure XAD!