The problem is already known and there is a bug open against ssl-cert.
apache-ssl is still not at fault even if it is the most relevant evidence
of it.
There is one issues right now and we discovered it recently (way
after we believed we fixed ssl-cert). In some debconf frontends it is
legal to leave an empty field and that would break the certificate
creation. Other frontends such as dialog do not accept empty fields and
replace them automatically with the default. Basically we were not aware
of this inconsistency inside debconf (there is a bug already opened) and
we are preparing a workaround for it.
Fabio
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Patricio Rojo wrote:
Package: apache-ssl
Version: 1.3.29.0.1-5
Severity: normal
Followup-For: Bug #229505
Hi,
I'm installing apache-ssl for the first time, I'm running unstable.
I got the same problem reported by Michael, even though it was
supposed to be already fixed on 'sid'... If I left my email blank I
got...
Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key
.++
++
writing new private key to '/etc/apache-ssl/apache.pem'
-
problems making Certificate Request
4930:error:0D07A098:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_mbstring_copy:string too
short:a_mbstr.c:147:minsize=1
dpkg: error processing apache-ssl (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
apache-ssl
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
And then I had to purge the failed installation, start over and
filling in everything I have no further problems...
Thanks!...
Pato
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-pcstm1-athlon
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages apache-ssl depends on:
ii apache-common 1.3.29.0.1-5 Support files for all Apache
webse
ii debconf 1.4.9Debian configuration management
sy
ii dpkg1.10.18 Package maintenance system for
Deb
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
an
ii libdb4.24.2.52-10Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries
[
ii libexpat1 1.95.6-6 XML parsing C library - runtime
li
ii libkeynote0 2.3-10 Decentralized Trust-Management
sys
ii libmagic1 4.07-2 File type determination library
us
ii libpam0g0.76-15 Pluggable Authentication Modules
l
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7c-5 SSL shared libraries
ii logrotate 3.6.5-2 Log rotation utility
ii mime-support3.24-1 MIME files 'mime.types'
'mailcap
ii openssl 0.9.7c-5 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary
a
ii perl [perl5]5.8.3-1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii ssl-cert1.0-7Simple debconf wrapper for
openssl
-- debconf information excluded
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