[geek] initializing DST: openssl failure / upgrading ubuntu from lucid to precise broke DNS

[darxus]

I upgraded my linode server from ubuntu distro lucid to precise today. I didn't have any specific needs, but lucid is getting EOLed in a couple months.

It broke my DNS server. This is what ended up fixing it:

Comments

[drwex]

Wow, your geek fu is mighty. I could mostly figure out what you did from parsing the command lines but would never have been able to do it myself.

[darxus]

Thanks. A lot of it was just copying and pasting errors into web searches. I should've thought to strace named myself, but I didn't. And I didn't know the syntax for following threads off the top of my head.

I think this really should've been mentioned in the known issues in the release notes, or the apt-listchanges output, all of which I actually read thoroughly before upgrading.

[darxus]

Some relevant links:

http://www.tokiwinter.com/installing-chrooted-bind-ubuntu-12-04-server/
http://serverfault.com/questions/613179/how-do-i-do-mount-bind-in-etc-fstab
http://bridge.grumpy-troll.org/2012/05/pangolin-update/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1961497
http://snarfu.com/freebsd/freebsd-bind-chroot-openssl-initializing-dst-openssl-failure-fix/
http://lwn.net/Articles/281157/