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Apache commands failing with: AH00141: Could not initialize random number generator

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Many Apache commands, such as apache2 -v and apachectl graceful are failing with this message:

(38)Function not implemented: AH00141: Could not initialize random number generator

Searches online have suggested this could be caused by Chinese characters in the PATH; I don't see any characters except a-z and slash. Others have suggested missing /dev/random and /dev/urandom; both are present on my system.

If I run cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail, I get numbers between about 130 and 250. Is this too low? Could this have something to do with it?

Other possibilities?

Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS

Apache 2.4.46

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answered 2 Years ago girdleas · Accepted Answer

I solved it by downgrading libapr1 from 1.7.0 to 1.5.2. To make it work, I had to downgrade libaprutil1 (and two libaprutil1-*) from 1.6.1 to 1.5.4. I also had to stick with Apache 2.4.18.