Bug#978045: apache2-bin: Immediate exit with "AH00141: Could not initialize random number generator"

2020-12-27 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Am 27.12.20 um 12:24 schrieb David W: I think a perfectly valid fix would be to document (in the changelog or elsewhere) that this hard requirement was added, in particular because (IIUC) using getrandom() instead of one of the other codepaths is the choice of the package maintainer. (I.e.

Bug#978045: apache2-bin: Immediate exit with "AH00141: Could not initialize random number generator"

2020-12-27 Thread David W
On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 10:37 PM Ondřej Surý wrote: > I believe it’s a reasonable assumption that the kernel matches the Debian > release. If anybody is running with old kernel or disables getrandom I > would say they are on their own - also other stuff will break, not only > apache2. > Yes,

Bug#978045: apache2-bin: Immediate exit with "AH00141: Could not initialize random number generator"

2020-12-26 Thread Ondřej Surý
I believe it’s a reasonable assumption that the kernel matches the Debian release. If anybody is running with old kernel or disables getrandom I would say they are on their own - also other stuff will break, not only apache2. Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý (He/Him) > On 27. 12. 2020, at 0:24, Stefan

Bug#978045: apache2-bin: Immediate exit with "AH00141: Could not initialize random number generator"

2020-12-26 Thread Stefan Fritsch
reassign 978045 libapr1 found 978045 1.7.0-1 thanks Am 25.12.20 um 03:18 schrieb David W: You can see that the associated call/failure is happening inside APR here, on line 216: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/apr/apr/trunk/misc/unix/rand.c?revision=1832691=markup#l216

Bug#978045: apache2-bin: Immediate exit with "AH00141: Could not initialize random number generator"

2020-12-24 Thread David W
Package: apache2-bin Version: 2.4.46-2 Severity: important On my machine, /usr/sbin/apache2 fails to start with the following message: [Thu Dec 24 15:38:01.052051 2020] [:crit] [pid 15725] (38)Function not implemented: AH00141: Could not initialize random number generator This happens very