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

control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/icing/mod_md/issues/402

Le vendredi 9 janvier 2026, 19:43:32 heure normale d’Europe centrale Juan Rafael Fernández García a écrit :
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 at 18:32, Bastien Roucaries <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > grep -R /md on the apache2 directory will help to identify the configuration.
> 
> Nothing relevant. Where's the configuration of mod_md, in
> /etc/letsencrypt maybe?
> 
> > for your case move the /etc/apache2/md directory to /var/cache/md and create a symlink from /etc/apache2/md to  /var/cache/md
> 
> It worked! Now the server is listening. Thanks a lot.
> 
> Is it just me with /etc/apache2/md/? I still don't know how those
> files were created in 2017.

Do not know but for me only sysadmin could create something under /etc, so it is an upstream bug that should be solved

reported and waiting from upstream

rouca
> 
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