On Thursday 18 October 2007 9:47:31 am Colvin, Joshua wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to upgrade bugzilla from 2.22 to 3.0.2 on 32-bit RHEL4, and
> this means upgrading mod_perl from 1.99_16 to 2.0.03 via CPAN.
> Unfortunately the 'make test' fails, saying:
>
> the server is down, giving up after 121 secs
> [ error] failed to start server! (please examine t/logs/error_log)
Was there nothing useful in the error_log?
> httpd is up and running when the above is output. It does not fail on any
> specific test number according to the error_log and I don't see any "error"
> msgs in the error_log. I've made sure httpd is stopped before doing the
> upgrade, otherwise I always get a:
> Below is the console output for everything I did, minus the lengthy parts
> that didn't seem relevant. Any ideas?
Do you have ssl configured? One thing I've noticed is that if you do, and
you're restarting apache a lot (as happens when you're testing) then it's
very easy to run out of entropy for the random number generator, at which
point apache will hang on start until the system gains enough entropy.
On a linux box, check:
/proc/sys/kernel/random/_avail
You need numbers over 50 for apache/ssl to be happy, in the hundreds is
better, single digit means you're stuck.
Solutions include less random random sources, entropy generator sources
and "cat /var/logs/* > /dev/null" (the quick and dirty method if you just
need it occasionally).
