SOLVED: Web Interface Vanished

[cowen]

Guys,

A friend with a lot of experience of Linux distributions took a look and found that the problem was that the openSSL package had to be updated. Once this was done, Greyhole and Apache started working again.

So glad I didn't have to reinstall.

[bigfoot65]

Awesome. Never thought to ask if you applied OS updates. Good catch.

[cpg]

whoa.

this looks to me like a very serious issue in the fedora platform. we must take action to correct this, as it appears that potentially *ALL* amahi _STOCK_ installs that use php-based apps will stop working at some point in the future unless updates are applied.

this is not acceptable.

can anyone help reproduce this? here are the steps:

- install with the amahi 7 express disc
- DO NOT UPDATE THE SYSTEM
- install one app that uses PHP, example owncloud, but others like phpsysinfo will do and be faster/easier to debug
- DO NOT UPDATE
- restart httpd

does httpd restart properly or does it fail?

if it fails, what does /var/log/httpd/error_log say the error was?

is it the SSLeay error?

if it is we have a serious problem and we need to correct it ASAP ...

[bigfoot65]

I have tried to replicate on my test VM with no luck. It does not have any OS updates and all apps have worked fine for me.

[bigfoot65]

This is what I show for openssl on 32-bit Amahi:

openssl-1.0.1e-30.fc19.i686

[cpg]

that is not the latest, however, the one from the amahi express cd is

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openssl-1.0.1e-4.fc19

so, that vm is not coming from amahi 7.1. well another reason it is not a stock amahi 7 is because it's 32 bits.

so i think this leaves more questions open than it answers

[bigfoot65]

Sorry, Il checked the Amahi Express VM I have installed and it reports.

openssl-1.0.1e-30.fc19.x86_64

[cpg]

i am confused how the amahi express 7.1 64 bit iso has a 1.0.1e-4 package in it yet a stock vm has 1.0.1e-30.

any ideas on how could that happen?

[bigfoot65]

Only if when I installed VNC it updated it. That would be my only guess. We could check the Demo machine I suppose.

[bigfoot65]

The Demo VM shows:

openssl-1.0.1e-31.fc19.x86_64