Deployment Architecture

SSL certificate generation failed.

initconf
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on the following host :
FreeBSD localhost 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 i386

splunk universal forwarder is giving this error:

./splunk start

Splunk> The IT Search Engine.

Checking prerequisites...

    Checking mgmt port [8089]: open

Unexpected EOF from process runner child!

SSL certificate generation failed.

Any thoughts ?

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troywollenslege
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This does seem to be fixed in 4.3.2, I installed and runs wihtout any issues.

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troywollenslege
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Same issue with 4.2.5. with universal forwarder.
uname -a
Linux linux.com 2.4.21-53.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Nov 14 03:54:12 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

It will just hang at checking mgmt port.

I am seeing 3 /opt/splunkforwarders/bin/splunkd generate-ssl processes running..

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afedoruc
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the same issue...

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