On Tue, Nov 22 2005 - 14:31, Joshua Slive wrote: > On 11/22/05, Joel CARNAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had an Apache 2.0.54 running on gentoo/i386. > > I did an minor update (-r9 to -r31 which I suspect to be gentoo > > internals). > > > > Since then, Apache won't start anymore... > > I tried updating a few things (like mod_php, ...), cleanly remove > > packages and remaning directories and reinstalling the package but > > Apache still don't start (anymore). > > > > The error_log says (using -X -e debug) : > > > [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... > > > > here I should get "Digest: done" but I never. > > anyone thinks of somewhere I must look... > > I already did a lot of checkings but I must be forgetting something =) > > mod_auth_digest is asking your system for some random bytes to use for > digest auth. Your system is not providing them. > > If you don't need digest auth, the simple solution is to simply remove > mod_auth_digest. Otherwise, you'll need to figure out what source of
well... accoring to strace, it stops when trying to read from
/dev/random.
open("/usr/lib/apache2/logs/access_log", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE,
0666) = 8
open("/var/log/http.fifo", O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 9
gettimeofday({1132737091, 140646}, NULL) = 0
write(7, "[Wed Nov 23 10:11:31 2005] [noti"..., 92) = 92
open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY) = 10
read(10,
looks like my /dev/random don't give me anything, as "dd if=/dev/random
of=random.txt count=5" freezes too.
gotta sort this out.
thanks.
> random numbers apr is using, and why it is failing. This should be
> automatic in the compile, so it is likely that gentoo messed something
> up. But I'm not an expert in this stuff.
>
> Joshua.
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