[GTALUG] Apache fails after upgrade

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Oct 7 09:44:18 EDT 2020


On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 05:10:19PM -0400, William Witteman via talk wrote:
> I recently upgraded my webserver, and now Apache isn't starting.  I
> have made no changes to the configuration - the only other this that I
> did was to install php-curl.
> 
> My error is this:
> [:crit] [pid 1574] (38)Function not implemented: AH00141: Could not
> initialize random number generator
> 
> There are a few things that I have seen online, but none have lead to
> a resolution.
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts?

It sounds like either your kernel or glibc are too old (or not configured)
to support the getrandom system call.

Was the apache built for a different release than you are running?

-- 
Len Sorensen


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