@davidep
So this time I tried a restore against the member.
I restored a functional vm snapshot of the above samba dc pdc and left it running over the weekend with a joined nethserver member.
This morning I installed backup into the member and fired off a backup. I then restored the member to a new rc1 install, rebooted, updated, rebooted, installed backup, restored… this restore went significantly better in that it restored the machine with mail etc, but the restored machine fails to join the domain, I have included some logs and snapshots including the correctly populated account provider page.
These are virtualbox vms each hosted on a different hardware machine.
pre restore dashboard
post restore dashboard
included for time stamps
2016-12-27 13:47:20 - START - Restore config started 2016-12-27 13:47:22 - STEP - pre-restore-config done 2016-12-27 13:47:22 - STEP - restore-config-execute done 2016-12-27 13:52:26 - ERROR - Event post-restore-config failed - 256
various log entries containing errors or failures
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Dec 27 13:50:16 server7c2 esmith::event[4045]: expanding /var/lib/nethserver/sieve-scripts/before.sieve
Dec 27 13:50:16 server7c2 esmith::event[4045]: Action: /etc/e-smith/events/actions/generic_template_expand SUCCESS [1.57084]
Dec 27 13:50:16 server7c2 esmith::event[4045]: Action: /etc/e-smith/events/nethserver-mail-server-update/S20nethserver-mail-server-conf SUCCESS [0.139383]
Dec 27 13:50:17 server7c2 esmith::event[4045]: Action: /etc/e-smith/events/nethserver-mail-server-update/S30nethserver-mail-postmap-update SUCCESS [0.388047]
Dec 27 13:50:18 server7c2 esmith::event[4045]: kinit: Cannot find KDC for realm “NETH.TEST.LOCAL” while getting initial credentials
Dec 27 13:50:21 server7c2 esmith::event[4045]: ads_connect: No logon servers
Dec 27 13:50:23 server7c2 esmith::event[4045]: ads_connect: No logon servers
Dec 27 13:50:23 server7c2 esmith::event[4045]: [ERROR] /usr/libexec/nethserver/smbads: failed to add service primaries to system keytab
Dec 27 13:50:23 server7c2 esmith::event[4045]: [ERROR] /usr/libexec/nethserver/smbads: failed to initialize keytabs
Dec 27 13:50:23 server7c2 esmith::event[4045]: Action: /etc/e-smith/events/nethserver-mail-server-update/S50nethserver-sssd-initkeytabs FAILED: 5 [6.304973]
Dec 27 13:50:23 server7c2 systemd: Reloading.
Dec 27 13:50:23 server7c2 esmith::event[4045]: [INFO] service amavisd restart
Dec 27 13:50:27 server7c2 esmith::event[4045]: Action: /etc/e-smith/events/actions/adjust-services SUCCESS [3.772836]
Dec 27 13:50:27 server7c2 esmith::event[4045]: [NOTICE] Initialize vmail Public IMAP namespace
Dec 27 13:50:27 server7c2 esmith::event[4045]: Action: /etc/e-smith/events/nethserver-mail-server-update/S98nethserver-mail-server-init-acl SUCCESS [0.321991]
Dec 27 13:50:27 server7c2 esmith::event[4045]: Event: nethserver-mail-server-update FAILED
Dec 27 13:50:27 server7c2 kernel: IPv4: martian source 192.168.124.210 from 192.168.124.196, on dev enp0s3
Dec 27 13:56:31 server7c2 kernel: IPv4: martian source 192.168.124.126 from 192.168.124.196, on dev enp0s3
Dec 27 13:56:31 server7c2 kernel: ll header: 00000000: ff ff ff ff ff ff 08 00 27 26 df 30 08 06 …’&.0…
Dec 27 13:56:34 server7c2 httpd: [ERROR] NethServer\Tool\GroupProvider: AccountProvider_Error_1
Dec 27 13:56:34 server7c2 httpd: [ERROR] Traceback (most recent call last):#012 File “”, line 3, in #012KeyError: ‘SECRETS/MACHINE_PASSWORD/SAMBA’#012Traceback (most recent call last):#012 File “”, line 3, in #012KeyError: ‘SECRETS/MACHINE_PASSWORD/SAMBA’#012(1) 00002020: Operation unavailable without authentication
Dec 27 13:56:37 server7c2 admin-todos: Traceback (most recent call last):
Dec 27 13:56:37 server7c2 admin-todos: File “”, line 3, in
Dec 27 13:56:37 server7c2 admin-todos: KeyError: ‘SECRETS/MACHINE_PASSWORD/SAMBA’
Dec 27 13:56:37 server7c2 admin-todos: Traceback (most recent call last):
Dec 27 13:56:37 server7c2 admin-todos: File “”, line 3, in
Dec 27 13:56:37 server7c2 admin-todos: KeyError: ‘SECRETS/MACHINE_PASSWORD/SAMBA’
Dec 27 13:56:37 server7c2 admin-todos: (1) 00002020: Operation unavailable without authentication
Dec 27 13:58:44 server7c2 httpd: [ERROR] NethServer\Tool\UserProvider: AccountProvider_Error_1
Dec 27 13:58:44 server7c2 httpd: [ERROR] Traceback (most recent call last):#012 File “”, line 3, in #012KeyError: ‘SECRETS/MACHINE_PASSWORD/SAMBA’#012Traceback (most recent call last):#012 File “”, line 3, in #012KeyError: ‘SECRETS/MACHINE_PASSWORD/SAMBA’#012(1) 00002020: Operation unavailable without authentication
Dec 27 13:58:50 server7c2 systemd: Starting Clean amavisd tmp folder…
Dec 27 13:58:50 server7c2 systemd: Starting Clean amavisd quarantine folder…
Dec 27 13:58:50 server7c2 systemd: Started Clean amavisd tmp folder.
Dec 27 13:58:50 server7c2 systemd: Started Clean amavisd quarantine folder.
Dec 27 13:58:56 server7c2 httpd: [ERROR] NethServer\Tool\GroupProvider: AccountProvider_Error_1
Dec 27 13:58:56 server7c2 httpd: [ERROR] Traceback (most recent call last):#012 File “”, line 3, in #012KeyError: ‘SECRETS/MACHINE_PASSWORD/SAMBA’#012Traceback (most recent call last):#012 File “”, line 3, in #012KeyError: ‘SECRETS/MACHINE_PASSWORD/SAMBA’#012(1) 00002020: Operation unavailable without authentication
Dec 27 13:58:58 server7c2 admin-todos: Traceback (most recent call last):
Dec 27 13:58:58 server7c2 admin-todos: File “”, line 3, in
Dec 27 13:58:58 server7c2 admin-todos: KeyError: ‘SECRETS/MACHINE_PASSWORD/SAMBA’
Dec 27 13:58:58 server7c2 admin-todos: Traceback (most recent call last):
Dec 27 13:58:58 server7c2 admin-todos: File “”, line 3, in
Dec 27 13:58:58 server7c2 admin-todos: KeyError: ‘SECRETS/MACHINE_PASSWORD/SAMBA’
Dec 27 13:58:58 server7c2 admin-todos: (1) 00002020: Operation unavailable without authentication
Dec 27 14:01:01 server7c2 systemd: Created slice user-0.slice.
Dec 27 14:01:01 server7c2 systemd: Starting user-0.slice.
Dec 27 14:01:01 server7c2 systemd: Started Session 1 of user root.
Dec 27 14:01:01 server7c2 systemd: Starting Session 1 of user root.
Dec 27 14:03:40 server7c2 sshd[2171]: Accepted password for root from 192.168.124.126 port 65402 ssh2
Dec 27 14:03:40 server7c2 systemd-logind: New session 2 of user root.
Dec 27 14:03:40 server7c2 systemd: Started Session 2 of user root.
Dec 27 14:03:40 server7c2 systemd: Starting Session 2 of user root.
Dec 27 14:04:31 server7c2 clamd: SelfCheck: Database status OK.
Dec 27 14:08:51 server7c2 systemd: Starting Cleanup of Temporary Directories…
Dec 27 14:08:51 server7c2 systemd: Started Cleanup of Temporary Directories.
Dec 27 14:10:45 server7c2 httpd: [ERROR] NethServer\Tool\GroupProvider: AccountProvider_Error_1
Dec 27 14:10:45 server7c2 httpd: [ERROR] Traceback (most recent call last):#012 File “”, line 3, in #012KeyError: ‘SECRETS/MACHINE_PASSWORD/SAMBA’#012Traceback (most recent call last):#012 File “”, line 3, in #012KeyError: ‘SECRETS/MACHINE_PASSWORD/SAMBA’#012(1) 00002020: Operation unavailable without authentication
Dec 27 14:14:31 server7c2 clamd: SelfCheck: Database status OK.
Dec 27 14:18:57 server7c2 httpd: [ERROR] NethServer\Tool\GroupProvider: AccountProvider_Error_1
Dec 27 14:18:57 server7c2 httpd: [ERROR] Traceback (most recent call last):#012 File “”, line 3, in #012KeyError: ‘SECRETS/MACHINE_PASSWORD/SAMBA’#012Traceback (most recent call last):#012 File “”, line 3, in #012KeyError: ‘SECRETS/MACHINE_PASSWORD/SAMBA’#012(1) 00002020: Operation unavailable without authentication`