Thank you Stas!
Your diagnosis is right on the money!
>I don't know why your /dev/random blocks. May be a broken kernel config?
>
>this should print 10 random chars from perl:
>
>% perl -le 'open I, "/dev/random"; read I, $d, 10; print $d'
Indeed it locks up and prints nothing, failing as does in the mod_perl
test suite - so there is something amiss in my kernel setup - NOT in mod_perl!
Your patch below doesn't quite work, but it's close enough to get through
the test suite and thus install.
Thanks again for all your help! This is my problem to solve now. You
all can get back to work with everything involved in getting the next
release out the door!
Peace, Edouard :-)
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Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote at Sat, 6 Mar 2004 15:21:21 -0800
>Edouard Lagache wrote:
>> Dear Stas and all,
>>
>> Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote at Sat, 6 Mar 2004 12:12:09 -0800
>>
>>
>>>Edouard Lagache wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY) = 3
>>>>read(3, <unfinished ...>
>>>
>>>that explains it. Your don't have enough entropy and /dev/random blocks.
>>>It's interesting to know what happens if you just key random keys for
a few
>>>secs after it hangs
>>>
>>>This should make the problem to go away:
>>>
>>>% PERL_HASH_SEED=0 make test
>>
>>
>> THANK YOU STAS! :-)
>>
>> Of course actually 'make test PERL_HASH_SEED=0' but yes! FYI, typing
>> random keys didn't work, but the PERL_HASH_SEED immediately solved the
>> problem.
>>
>> Alas, I still have a test failing, but it fails in a similar way so
>> perhaps it is a similar problem?
>>
>> The test "t/modperl/cookie" just hangs. The result of a verbose test run
>> is below. I waited 5 minutes before killing the test with <CTRL>C. Any
>> ideas why the test would simply stall out?
>
>
>> t/modperl/cookie....1..3
>> # Running under perl version 5.008003 for linux
>> # Current time local: Sat Mar 6 14:34:51 2004
>> # Current time GMT: Sat Mar 6 22:34:51 2004
>> # Using Test.pm version 1.24
>> # getting the same interp ID for /TestModperl__cookie
>
>For the same reason I think. it tries to get a random number to generate
UUID.
>PERL_HASH_SEED=0 won't help here. Setting it was just preventing
>apr_uuid_get(uuid) from being called at the startup. But here it needs to be
>called anyway.
>
>There are several other tests that will block for the same reason.
>
>remove these tests, as they will hang:
>
>rm t/apr/uuid.t
>rm t/apr-ext/uuid.t
>
>the rest of the tests should run with this patch:
>
>Index: Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestHandler.pm
>===================================================================
>RCS file:
>/home/cvs/httpd-test/perl-framework/Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestHandler.pm,v
>retrieving revision 1.3
>diff -u -r1.3 TestHandler.pm
>--- Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestHandler.pm 4 Mar 2004 05:51:31 -0000
> 1.3
>+++ Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestHandler.pm 6 Mar 2004 23:13:51 -0000
>@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
> if ($interp eq 'tie') { #first request for an interpreter instance
> # unique id for this instance
> require APR::UUID;
>- $same_interp_id = $id = APR::UUID->new->format;
>+ $same_interp_id = $id = int rand 10000000;
> $same_interp_counter = 0; #reset the counter
> }
> elsif ($interp ne $same_interp_id) {
>
>I don't know why your /dev/random blocks. May be a broken kernel config?
>
>this should print 10 random chars from perl:
>
>% perl -le 'open I, "/dev/random"; read I, $d, 10; print $d'
>
>a simple 'cat /dev/random' is an even simpler test ;)
>
>If it blocks, now you have abstracted the problem outside of the mp
>domain. So
>please ask at one of the linux support list and please report back your
>findings, as this is not the first time this problem is reported. Thanks.
>
>As for using installed mp2 (while you still have /dev/random broken), you
>need
>to set only PERL_HASH_SEED to any value at the server startup, and as
long as
>you don't use APR::UUID you won't have any problems.
>
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