Bug#1125111: apache2: Apache2 won't start, error "Read-only file system: AH10082: Can't change owner of /etc/apache2/md/challenges"

Juan Rafael Fernández García <[email protected]> Fri, 9 Jan 2026 17:57:02 +0000

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On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 at 16:53, Bastien Roucaries <[email protected]> wrote:

> What is the output of
> - dpkg -L apache2
> - dpkg -S /etc/apache2/md

No trace of /etc/apache2/md/ in packages apache, python3-acme,
certbot, python3-certbot or python3-certbot-apache.

So maybe /etc/apache2/md/ is a remnant of an old version (I have been
updating Debian Testing on this computer since 2017).

Then I had the idea of renaming /etc/apache2/md/ to
/etc/apache2/md_removed/. The error has changed

[md:error] ... (30)Read-only file system: AH10046: setup store for
/etc/apache2/md
AH00016: Configuration Failed

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Juan Rafael Fernández
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