This topic contains troubleshooting information for known problems
with the cryptographic hardware.
You must install the bos.pkcs11 package to get
the PKCS11 module, and to initialize the device on AIX®.
An added update to the bos.pkcs11 package fixed a forking problem.
Obtain the most recent copy of the bos.pkcs11 package from
the IBM® PSeries
Support Site, to ensure you have this fix.
If you are having problems using the IBM eBusiness Cryptographic Accelerator
Device with IBM HTTP
Server, do the following:
- Reboot the machine.
- Kill pkcsslotd and the shared memory it created. To determine what
shared memory was created, typeipcs -a and for a size of 270760.
This was the memory created by pkcsslotd.
- Export EXPSHM=ON.
- Start the pkcs11 process: /etc/rc.pkcsw11
- Restart IBM HTTP
Server: ./apachectl start