e577ea6 Ticket 48255- total update request can be lost

Authored and Committed by lkrispen 8 years ago
    Ticket 48255- total update request can be lost
    
    Bug Description:  if the initial replica acquire fails the
                      protocol switches to incremental update
                      but the database has not been initialized and
                      the incremental update will als fail continously
    
    Fix Description: for transient failures do a few retries.
    
    https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/48255
    
    Reviewed by: Noriko, thanks