Environment
Novell Open Enterprise Server 1 (OES 1) Support Pack 1 Linux
Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2)
Situation
iManager Reports Invalid incarnation Number when attempting to create a NSS pool or Volume
iManager Reports Invalid incarnation Number when attempting to create a NSS pool or Volume on OES Linux
The following error can also be seen in /var/log/messages
Nov 30 17:56:46 zen1 adminfs daemon: mounting volume VOL1
Nov 30 17:56:46 zen1 adminfs daemon: Error -1 from NCPLoginAsNSSAdmin
Error -1 is seen when attempting to create the volumes using NSSMU at the server console
error FFFFFDA2 is reported when the command nssAdminInstall -u is issued
Invalid incarnation Number when creating NSS volumes
Resolution
nssAdminInstall -a admin.novell.novell_tree -p password -o nssproxyuser.novell novell_tree
-a specifies the user that will authenticate to eDirectory to make the changes, Admin works great here
-p specifies the admin password
-o specifies the user that nss will use as the proxy user
Additional Information
This object is usually servernameADMIN and exists in the same container as the server object.
This can happen because maybe the server was reinstalled, but the proxy user object was not removed prior to installation
It may also work to run nssAdminInstall in update mode instead of creating a new user object
Formerly known as TID# 10099811