# error in posInitbranchserver

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/error-in-posinitbranchserver/29526>\
**Category:** SLES Point of Service\
**Created:** [March 22, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/error-in-posinitbranchserver/29526 "2017-03-22T09:49:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![LinuxAdmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@LinuxAdmin](https://forums.suse.com/u/LinuxAdmin)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/error-in-posinitbranchserver/29526/1 "2017-03-22T09:49:45Z")

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I had run the posInitbranchserver on one of my server gives below error

## posInitBranchserver -r

```
 BranchServer Configuration

```

* * *

Branch server reinitialization!  
..stopping services..  
Shutting down rsync daemon done  
Stopping Advanced Trivial FTP server done  
Shutting down name server BIND waiting for named to shut down (28s) done  
Shutting down ISC DHCPv4 4.x Server done  
Available initialization modes:  
1 = Online(default)  
2 = Offline  
Please, select initialization mode: 1  
Please enter your organization/company name [trent-tata]:  
Please enter the 2 letter abbreviation of your country [in]:  
Please enter the name of organizational unit [fiorahypermarket]:  
Please enter the location/branch name [fhl001]:  
Please enter the name or IP of the AdminServer [[adminserver.trent-tata.com](http://adminserver.trent-tata.com)]: 192.168.129.71  
Please enter the Branch Server access password:  
Trying to synchronize server certificates  
with admin server…

Initializing Branch LDAP server…  
Use Branch LDAP on localhost? (yes/no) [yes]  
Shutting down ldap-server done  
Starting Branch LDAP server…  
Starting ldap-server done  
Checking Branch LDAP communication…  
Branch LDAP connection established  
Checking AdminServer LDAP communication…  
Admin LDAP connected…  
Initializing Branch LDAP db via SyncRepl from Admin LDAP server  
Storing BranchServer configuration…  
[B][B]Waiting for Syncreplication to complete (Maximum wait time 60 seconds. Checking every 3 seconds)  
…  
Maximum waittime exceeded. Servers are in not sync.  
[Warning] Replication from Adminserver to Branchserver did not complete after 60 seconds.  
Try again? (yes/no) [yes]

Kindly suggest

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**Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 7:30am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/error-in-posinitbranchserver/29526/2 "2017-03-27T07:30:21Z")

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