[cups] print server hangt bij https aanvragen

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Ik heb cups draaien als printserver wat op zich goed werkt tot dat er https aanvragen naar de webadmin komen en dan ligt het op z'n gat.

Cups error log:

15/Apr/2007:07:33:19 -0400] Generating SSL server key...

Via google kwam ik de volgende informatie tegen op http://www.burtonini.com/blog/2006/Aug/14

A while back I upgraded CUPS on my NAS device to CUPS 1.2, and as my configuration file had bitrotted I decided to erase it and start again. It was looking good, CUPS detected the USB printer like they said it would, but then it just stopped working. I had to upgrade to a SSL connection to perform administration tasks, and it just wasn't working. strace shows the daemon was just running a select loop, I had no idea what the problem was.

Today after a bit more searching the solution hit me. It's trying to create a self-signed SSL key, and SSL keys need random data. Now, what creates random data on Linux? Mouse activity (the NAS has no mouse), keyboard activity (no keyboard), and disk activity (it gets used once a week). A quick poke with sysctl proved my problem:

$ sysctl kernel.random.entropy_avail
kernel.random.entropy_avail = 8

Hm, eight bytes with which to create a SSL key from, that just won't work. Solution: find /. I ran that in one terminal with sysctl in another, and could watch the entropy pool get filled with IDE data, to be used by CUPS. After twenty seconds of disk activity, the certificate was finally generated. Yay, a working printer!

So, for Google and anyone else out there: if you see Generating SSL server key... in the CUPS log and then CUPS hangs, check your entropy levels.

Helaas had dit geen effect dus heb ik de config file aangepast om ssl etc te negeren:

Encryption Never

Maar nog steeds krijg ik bovenstaande melding in de error log bij een https request en moet ik cups eerst handmatig herstarten voordat ik verder kan. Wie heeft er een oplossing voor dit probleem?

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