Thanks Steve. Will run the tests on these machines today. Regards, Uma
-----Original Message----- From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Dr. Stephen Henson Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 8:58 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: Server crash while starting service On Tue, Mar 17, 2009, Uma G. Nayak wrote: > Hi All, > > We have upgraded Openssl in our application to Openssl-fips-1.2 along with > Openssl-0.9.8j, so that we can run the server (Apache webserver) in FIPS > mode. After the changes, the server works fine in FIPS mode, on most of the > systems, except for these two machines, where the server refuses to start > when launched from services.msc. The error it gives is: "Error 1053, Failed > to launch the application in a timely fashion" or sometimes: "Could not start > the requested service. Error code sytem-specific errorcode - 1". > > When I try to run the application in the debug environment, it gives the > following error: > > FIPS_R_UNSUPPORTED_PLATFORM "unsupported platform". (Indicating that the > validity of the digest test is unknown for the current platform.) > > Could this be the same error condition causing the server crash in release > build. We have no way to find the cause in release build, because no log > files are created by the time the server stops loading itself. > > Note: The same application works fine, if I run it in NON-FIPS mode. > > All the machines are 32 bits machines, Windows XP, RAM 1 or 2 GB. Can anyone > let me know, why we are facing this problem and/or the workaround for this? > > We are grateful for any help provided. > Try running the fips_test_suite executable on the failing machines. The failing ones aren't old machines not supporting SSE2 are they? If so you can still run the slower version with assembly language support, see user guide for details of how to build it. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org http://www.mindtree.com/email/disclaimer.html ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
