Hi Stas! (and mod_perl crew! :-) Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote at Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:20:19 -0800
>> Unfortunately, you aren't the first one to hit this problem and not the >> last one. So ideally we should find a way for the application to figure >> out those things before it hangs and tell the user how to fix them or at >> least print out the diagnosys information to help resolve the problem, >> without a user needed to contact this list. >> >> I've emailed apr-dev to ask whether apr_uuid_get can be adjusted to have >> some sort of timeout mechanism. > >So as Justin told me over apr-dev, the solution is to rebuild Apache with >--with-devrandom=/dev/urandom - however, that is not secure for certain >needs. > Or setup EGD and use --with-egd. PERFECT! I rebuilt Apache and mod_perl works perfectly without the urandom symlink hack. So if anyone else has the "server failed to start!" problem again, the answer is to build Apache with --with- devrandom=/dev/urandom (at least if they can live with the security compromises.) Thanks again Stas and everyone! Peace, Edouard :-) -------------------------- Edouard Lagache, Sysadmin canebas.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29 Altamount Drive Orinda, CA, 94563 -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
