[Spacewalk-list] Mr. 500 here... more info

[mark]

Máirí­n Duffy wrote:
> m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:
>>> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:17:41 -0500
>>> From: Máirí­n Duffy <duffy at redhat.com>  m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:
>>>> Thanks to everyone - your help has been very much appreciated. Sorry
>>>> if I got surly, but my manager wanted this running, so there was
>>>> pressure to make it so.
>>> Lessons learned:
>>>
>>> #1: Friends don't let friends hit ctrl+c while the installation
>>> process of an application is still running and expect the resulting
>>> application to be stable and work correctly.
>> <snip>
>> Do you have *any* idea why it might seem to freeze at the end? I did
>> watch it for a couple of minutes before <ctrl-C> I'd have expected
>> either an error, or for it to finish. I'd love to know what happened.
> 
> My guess, as others have suggested, is perhaps the VM doesn't have
> enough entrophy for generating the SSL certs so that step takes a
> honkin' long time on a VM but I don't know for sure. If you tail -f the
> installation log while you install (as I believe the installation
> directions recommend) then you'd know what it was doing as it went...
> but I'm guessing you didn't do that since you don't know?

I do not believe that's the problem. Certainly, the SSL cert - csr, crt, and
key, were where they belonged, in /etc/httpd/conf/, in the usual directories.
It was *after* that was done that the thing hung.

	mark