[GTALUG] Apache fails after upgrade

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Oct 7 18:38:12 EDT 2020


On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 10:03:27AM -0400, William Witteman via talk wrote:
> These are good thoughts - that's what makes this so weird, as I am
> running standard Debian "testing", and I've got both /dev/random and
> /dev/urandom.  I tried digging into the source of Apache to see if
> there's a nuance to the call, but I don't know enough about Apache to
> even find the error code (which I would have thought would be pretty
> easy, but no.)

/dev/random and /dev/urandom are not the same as the getrandom syscall.
The /dev files are the old method of getting random numbers.

> My temporary work-around has been to change my whole webserver, and
> got nginx installed and configured for all of my domains, but it's a
> very brute force approach, and took a couple of hours, as I don't
> really know nginx.

Did you install apache from testing too?  Is everything consistently
installed from testing?

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Len Sorensen


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