https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/SSL-certificate-generation-failed/m-p/32033#M873 <P>on the following host :<BR /> FreeBSD localhost 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 i386</P> <P>splunk universal forwarder is giving this error: </P> <P>./splunk start </P> <P>Splunk&gt; The IT Search Engine.</P> <P>Checking prerequisites...</P> <PRE><CODE> Checking mgmt port [8089]: open </CODE></PRE> <P>Unexpected EOF from process runner child!</P> <P>SSL certificate generation failed.</P> <P>Any thoughts ? </P> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:55:49 GMT initconf 2011-12-09T01:55:49Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/SSL-certificate-generation-failed/m-p/32033#M873 <P>on the following host :<BR /> FreeBSD localhost 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 i386</P> <P>splunk universal forwarder is giving this error: </P> <P>./splunk start </P> <P>Splunk&gt; The IT Search Engine.</P> <P>Checking prerequisites...</P> <PRE><CODE> Checking mgmt port [8089]: open </CODE></PRE> <P>Unexpected EOF from process runner child!</P> <P>SSL certificate generation failed.</P> <P>Any thoughts ? </P> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:55:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/SSL-certificate-generation-failed/m-p/32033#M873 initconf 2011-12-09T01:55:49Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/SSL-certificate-generation-failed/m-p/32034#M874 <P>the same issue... </P> Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:50:23 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/SSL-certificate-generation-failed/m-p/32034#M874 afedoruc 2012-01-09T14:50:23Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/SSL-certificate-generation-failed/m-p/32035#M875 <P>Same issue with 4.2.5. with universal forwarder. <BR /> uname -a<BR /> Linux linux.com 2.4.21-53.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Nov 14 03:54:12 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux</P> <P>It will just hang at checking mgmt port. </P> <P>I am seeing 3 /opt/splunkforwarders/bin/splunkd generate-ssl processes running.. </P> Wed, 02 May 2012 16:04:04 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/SSL-certificate-generation-failed/m-p/32035#M875 troywollenslege 2012-05-02T16:04:04Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/SSL-certificate-generation-failed/m-p/32036#M876 <P>This does seem to be fixed in 4.3.2, I installed and runs wihtout any issues.</P> Wed, 02 May 2012 16:17:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/SSL-certificate-generation-failed/m-p/32036#M876 troywollenslege 2012-05-02T16:17:48Z