Just a guess: looks like SSL is waiting for /dev/random (blocking random) to answer, and /dev/random can take a long time to answer if there's not enough entropy in the system.
Usually you can choose betwenn /dev/random and /dev/urandom (non blocking but cryptographic quality depending on entropy) by configuration. I didn't follow this thread, so I don't know, if we are talking about OpenSSL or Java SSL. I hope others will comment to complete the solution. Regards, Rainer Stefan Armbruster schrieb: > Hi, > > thanks for the responses so far. I removed all libapr* deb packages and > installed apr 1.2.8 from source, but Tomcat still hangs. Below the thread > dump as suggested by Filip: > > 29.03.2007 19:38:56 org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init > INFO: Loaded Apache Tomcat Native library 1.1.8. > 2007-03-29 19:39:01 > Full thread dump Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (1.6.0-b105 mixed mode): > > "Low Memory Detector" daemon prio=10 tid=0x00002aaad360c000 nid=0xe51 > runnable > [0x0000000000000000..0x0000000000000000] > java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE > > "CompilerThread1" daemon prio=10 tid=0x00002aaad3609400 nid=0xe50 waiting on > condition [0x0000000000000000..0x0000000040a31dd0] > java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE > > "CompilerThread0" daemon prio=10 tid=0x00002aaad3607800 nid=0xe4f waiting on > condition [0x0000000000000000..0x0000000040930d20] > java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE > > "Signal Dispatcher" daemon prio=10 tid=0x00002aaad3606000 nid=0xe4e waiting > on > condition [0x0000000000000000..0x0000000000000000] > java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE > > "Finalizer" daemon prio=10 tid=0x00002aaad35e2400 nid=0xe4d in Object.wait() > [0x000000004072f000..0x000000004072fcb0] > java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (on object monitor) > at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method) > - waiting on <0x00002aaac91cc198> (a > java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue$Lock) > at java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue.remove(ReferenceQueue.java:116) > - locked <0x00002aaac91cc198> (a java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue$Lock) > at java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue.remove(ReferenceQueue.java:132) > at java.lang.ref.Finalizer$FinalizerThread.run(Finalizer.java:159) > > "Reference Handler" daemon prio=10 tid=0x00002aaad35e1400 nid=0xe4c in > Object.wait() [0x000000004062e000..0x000000004062ec30] > java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (on object monitor) > at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method) > - waiting on <0x00002aaac91cc1d0> (a java.lang.ref.Reference$Lock) > at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:485) > at java.lang.ref.Reference$ReferenceHandler.run(Reference.java:116) > - locked <0x00002aaac91cc1d0> (a java.lang.ref.Reference$Lock) > > "main" prio=10 tid=0x0000000040113000 nid=0xe48 runnable > [0x0000000040229000..0x000000004022af70] > java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE > at org.apache.tomcat.jni.SSL.initialize(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener.initializeSSL(AprLifecycleListener.java:209) > - locked <0x00002aaaaead4c40> (a java.lang.Class for > org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener.lifecycleEvent(AprLifecycleListener.java:81) > at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:120) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.java:767) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:504) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:524) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:260) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:412) > > "VM Thread" prio=10 tid=0x00002aaad35dc800 nid=0xe4b runnable > > "GC task thread#0 (ParallelGC)" prio=10 tid=0x000000004011d800 nid=0xe49 > runnable > > "GC task thread#1 (ParallelGC)" prio=10 tid=0x000000004011ec00 nid=0xe4a > runnable > > "VM Periodic Task Thread" prio=10 tid=0x00002aaad360dc00 nid=0xe52 waiting on > condition > > JNI global references: 757 > > Heap > PSYoungGen total 9408K, used 7002K [0x00002aaac8920000, > 0x00002aaac9b80000, 0x00002aaad3120000) > eden space 8128K, 72% used > [0x00002aaac8920000,0x00002aaac8ed79e8,0x00002aaac9110000) > from space 1280K, 89% used > [0x00002aaac9110000,0x00002aaac922efb0,0x00002aaac9250000) > to space 1280K, 0% used > [0x00002aaac9a40000,0x00002aaac9a40000,0x00002aaac9b80000) > PSOldGen total 21504K, used 0K [0x00002aaab3920000, > 0x00002aaab4e20000, 0x00002aaac8920000) > object space 21504K, 0% used > [0x00002aaab3920000,0x00002aaab3920000,0x00002aaab4e20000) > PSPermGen total 21248K, used 7826K [0x00002aaaae520000, > 0x00002aaaaf9e0000, 0x00002aaab3920000) > object space 21248K, 36% used > [0x00002aaaae520000,0x00002aaaaecc49a8,0x00002aaaaf9e0000) > > $ ldd /usr/local/apr/lib/libtcnative-1.so > libapr-1.so.0 => /usr/local/apr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 (0x00002ba129577000) > libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00002ba1296a1000) > librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00002ba1297a5000) > libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00002ba1298ae000) > libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002ba1299e2000) > libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002ba129af9000) > libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0x00002ba129bfd000) > libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0x00002ba129d44000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002ba129fba000) > /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000555555554000) > libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00002ba12a1fa000) > > Regards, > Stefan > > > Am Mittwoch, 28. März 2007 21:02 schrieb Mladen Turk: >> Stefan Armbruster wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Tomcat hangs on startup when I try to enable the APR native library. >>> After setting java.library.path to /usr/local/apr/lib/, catalina.out gets >>> just these two lines: >> You will need apr 1.2.x >> The generic path for that looks like >> /usr/local/apr-1/lib >> >> The >> /usr/local/apr/lib is for APR 0.9.x shipped >> with Apache Httpd 2.0.x and Subversion, >> so try to set the correct path to APR-1 >> >> Regards, >> Mladen. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]