Shibboleth Service Provider Update brought Apache Tomcat silently down

[Cantor, Scott]

On 12/9/13, 9:29 AM, "Jörg Knappen" <j.knappen at mx.uni-saarland.de> wrote:
>
>I configured Shibboleth-SP-2.4.3, made it, and made install. I stopped
>the apache httpd and started it anew.
>
>The strange observation is, that apache-tomcat (which should not be
>affected by the whole procedure) stopped working at that time without
>leaving traces in the logs (so it
>wasn't a normal shutdown, and there is also no error trace there).

I've seen AJP connections stop working at times across Apache restarts,
but as you surmise there is 100% absolutely no possible overlap between
Tomcat and any part of the SP software stack, unless you include OpenSSL
in the build and are using the APR functionality in Tomcat.

-- Scott