Bug#227294: apache-perl: hangs reading files in conf.d blocking startup process

[Streph Treadway <sbt@ginkwunk.net>]

Package: apache-perl
Version: 1.3.29.0.1-3
Severity: normal

I upgraded today from 1.3.29-1 to take advantage of the bugfix for #223829.
Thanks, by the way.  I am running apache-perl with mod_ssl as a DSO.
I use mod_ssl in a single virtual host.  The upgrade installed two files
related to mod_ssl in conf.d, which was otherwise empty.  One of these
appeared to contain global configuration directives and the other had
vhost-specific directives.  Neither appered related to my particular
configuration, which remains in http.conf.  When attempting to restart
after the upgrade, apache-perl hung reading the files in conf.d and did
again on attempts to restart.  This was particularly annoying as it
blocked the startup process.  For now I have commented out the include
directive in httpd.conf for conf.d, and all is well.  But I expect I will
have to repeat the process on my next routine upgrade.  The apache-perl
error.log has the following which suggests the problem is that my key is
not where the default configuration expects it to be:

[Sun Jan 11 17:46:02 2004] [error] mod_ssl: Init: Private key not found
(OpenSSL library error follows)
[Sun Jan 11 17:46:02 2004] [error] OpenSSL: error:0D094068:asn1 encoding
routines:d2i_ASN1_SET:bad tag
[Sun Jan 11 17:46:02 2004] [error] OpenSSL: error:0D0680A8:asn1 encoding
routines:ASN1_CHECK_TLEN:wrong tag
[Sun Jan 11 17:46:02 2004] [error] OpenSSL: error:0D07803A:asn1 encoding
routines:ASN1_ITEM_EX_D2I:nested asn1 error
[Sun Jan 11 17:46:02 2004] [error] OpenSSL: error:0D09A00D:asn1 encoding
routines:d2i_PrivateKey:ASN1 lib


Thanks again,

Streph

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux janus 2.4.19 #4 SMP Wed Aug 20 19:54:38 EDT 2003 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apache-perl depends on:
ii  apache-common               1.3.29.0.1-3 Support files for all Apache webse
ii  debconf                     1.4.4        Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                        1.10.18      Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libapache-mod-perl          1.29.0.1-3   Integration of perl with the Apach
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb4.1                    4.1.25-13    Berkeley v4.1 Database Libraries [
ii  libexpat1                   1.95.6-6     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libmagic1                   4.06-2       File type determination library us
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-14.1    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libperl5.8                  5.8.2-2      Shared Perl library.
ii  mime-support                3.23-1       MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap

-- debconf information:
  apache-perl/old-pidfile-set: 
* apache-perl/upgrade-from-apache-conflict: 
  apache-perl/server-port: 80
  apache-perl/init: true
* apache-perl/enable-suexec: false
  apache-perl/server-name: www.ginkwunk.net
  apache-perl/server-admin: sbt@ginkwunk.net
  apache-perl/document-root: /var/www