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    From Christoph Pleger@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 19 10:10:02 2025
    Hello,

    after upgrading a computer from Debian 11 to Debian 12, I am unable to
    start apache2 by systemd. Even configuring the apache2 package hangs
    forever, if I do not kill the related processes and edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2.postinst, commenting out all lines where
    apache2 is tried to be started.

    Trying to explicitly start apache2 for the CLI:

    1. systemctl start apache2

    hangs

    2. cp /etc/init.d/apache2 /root
    /root/apache2 start

    hangs

    3. The only method I found so far that works, from the CLI:

    . /etc/apache2/envvars
    export APACHE_STARTED_BY_SYSTEMD=true
    apache2ctl start

    Any idea?

    Regards
    Christoph

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  • From Joe@21:1/5 to Christoph Pleger on Sat Apr 19 11:10:01 2025
    On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 10:03:58 +0200
    Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@cs.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:

    Hello,

    after upgrading a computer from Debian 11 to Debian 12, I am unable to
    start apache2 by systemd. Even configuring the apache2 package hangs
    forever, if I do not kill the related processes and edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2.postinst, commenting out all lines where
    apache2 is tried to be started.

    Trying to explicitly start apache2 for the CLI:

    1. systemctl start apache2

    hangs

    2. cp /etc/init.d/apache2 /root
    /root/apache2 start

    hangs

    3. The only method I found so far that works, from the CLI:

    . /etc/apache2/envvars
    export APACHE_STARTED_BY_SYSTEMD=true
    apache2ctl start

    Any idea?


    See if there are any clues in /var/log/apache2/error.log or the
    earlier files. You'll need root privileges.

    --
    Joe

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  • From Andy Smith@21:1/5 to Christoph Pleger on Sat Apr 19 12:00:01 2025
    Hi,

    On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 10:03:58AM +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote:
    after upgrading a computer from Debian 11 to Debian 12, I am unable to
    start apache2 by systemd.

    Always check:

    # systemctl status apache2
    # apachectl configtest
    # journalctl -u apache2

    and the contents of apache2's own error.log.

    Thanks,
    Andy

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  • From Christoph Pleger@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 22 13:30:01 2025
    Hello,
    # systemctl status apache2
    # apachectl configtest
    # journalctl -u apache2


    I have solved it, and the reason for apache2 not starting with systemd
    was that apache2 waited for nslcd to start, while nslcd waited for time-sync.target and that waited for systemd-time-wait-sync.service. Unfortunately, systemd-time-wait-sync.service with
    TimeoutStartSec=infinity never succeeds at boot time, though it does in
    a manual restart.

    But there is still the question why systemd-time-wait-sync.service
    fails at boot ...

    Regards
    Christoph

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