Apache workers stuck in graceful shutdown on RHEL7

[Aaron Howell]

Dragging up a thread from months ago:

Previous email:
https://marc.info/?t=146189427500001&r=1&w=2

You could conceivably turn off reloadability and see if that changes things, but it's \
tricky to do that for the main file. You need a snippet of XML like this:

<Config path="/etc/shibboleth2.xml" reloadChanges="false" />

If you assign that to the SHIBSP_CONFIG environment variable, that's supposed to \
override the loading process and should disable the background thread on the main \
file, which seems to be the one that's hung. Doesn't get used much as a feature, so \
hopefully it still works.

I’m trying to get the work around in place - but shibboleth was failing to start. There wasn’t much info - but in troubleshooting - I’ve gotten it to this point:

sudo /usr/sbin/shibd -f -F -t -c '<Config path="/etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml" reloadChanges="false" />'
2016-12-06 14:50:00 CRIT XMLTooling.Config : libcurl lacks OpenSSL-specific options, this will greatly limit functionality
2016-12-06 14:50:00 FATAL Shibboleth.Config : caught exception while loading configuration: The supplied XML bootstrapping configuration did not include a type attribute.
<3>configuration is invalid, check console for specific problems

If I add a type and guess at what it is meant to be - the error changes - so I presume I just need to get the right type?

sudo /usr/sbin/shibd -f -F -t -c '<Config type=“xml" path="/etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml" reloadChanges="false" />'
2016-12-06 14:52:12 CRIT XMLTooling.Config : libcurl lacks OpenSSL-specific options, this will greatly limit functionality
2016-12-06 14:52:12 FATAL Shibboleth.Config : caught exception while loading configuration: Unknown plugin type.
<3>configuration is invalid, check console for specific problems


Cheers
Aaron

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