#1592 [ipa webui] Does not return appropriate error when deleting an external host but checking update dns
Closed: Fixed None Opened 12 years ago by dpal.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729089

Description of problem:
If you add an external host when IPA is install with integrated DNS and then
try to delete it while checking update dns, from the UI is appears like it is
successful, but does not delete the host.  The CLI returns an appropriate error
saying the DNS zone <zonename> was not found.

http errors_log
[Mon Aug 08 13:03:16 2011] [error] ipa: INFO: admin@TESTRELM:
batch(({u'params': [[u'external.example'], {u'updatedns': True}], u'method':
u'host_del'},)): SUCCESS
[Mon Aug 08 13:03:17 2011] [error] ipa: INFO: admin@TESTRELM: host_find(None,
all=False): SUCCESS

CLI
# ipa host-del external.example --updatedns
ipa: ERROR: DNS zone example not found
[root@jennyipa tmp]# echo $?
2


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# rpm -qi ipa-server
Name        : ipa-server                   Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.0.99                            Vendor: (none)
Release     : 7.20110803T1738zgit9150187.el6   Build Date: Wed 03 Aug 2011
01:51:41 PM EDT
Install Date: Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:54:04 PM EDT      Build Host:
goofy-vm16.dsdev.sjc.redhat.com
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM:
ipa-2.0.99-7.20110803T1738zgit9150187.el6.src.rpm
Size        : 3275087                          License: GPLv3+
Signature   : (none)
URL         : http://www.freeipa.org/
Summary     : The IPA authentication server
Description :
IPA is an integrated solution to provide centrally managed Identity (machine,
user, virtual machines, groups, authentication credentials), Policy
(configuration settings, access control information) and Audit (events,
logs, analysis thereof). If you are installing an IPA server you need
to install this package (in other words, most people should NOT install
this package).


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install IPA server with integrated DNS
2. Log into the web UI as admin
3. Hosts --> Add
4. enter a host FQDN outside of the managed DNS domain and check the force
button (do not define an IP address)
5. delete the host and check Remove entries from DNS

Actual results:
Appears successful, but host is not deleted

Expected results:
Same as CLI - error is returned:
ipa: ERROR: DNS zone <zonename> not found

In the UI the host-del command is done in batch. If the batch command itself fails the UI will show an error. However, if the individual commands inside the batch fail currently the UI doesn't show any error. This is because a batch command could potentially contain many commands and showing an error for each failure could become a usability problem.

One solution is to collect all errors in the batch and show it in a single dialog box.

Can we have an aggregate status that carries the error of the first failure? If there is an error then the message can be "Not all selected <...> entries have been deleted."

Metadata Update from @dpal:
- Issue assigned to pvoborni
- Issue set to the milestone: FreeIPA 2.1.1 (bug fixing)

7 years ago

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