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[Cantor, Scott]

On 6/5/13 10:18 AM, "John Westwood" <john.westwood at port.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>We are running Shibboleth SP 2.4.3 in SLES 11 . Shibboleth was working
>fine until we had a hardware fault. This was fixed and the server was
>restarted, but now when trying to authenticate the following error occurs:

The reason is that you're on an out of date version, and you were bitten
by a bug. The SLES system sweeps /var/run between reboots, so your backup
metadata got thrown away. You've most likely been using it for a while and
it's not been connecting for new metadata. Once the backup was lost, it
failed. If you have an unusual network environment with a proxy, you
really need to either monitor logs for errors, or consider not using a
backup file, since that will just hide the problem from you.

The supported version, 2.5, uses /var/cache to store off the metadata
files so that they don't get swept away across reboots.

Of course, I can't speak to why your network problem exists. Perhaps they
moved the proxy or something.

-- Scott