tor26 missing certificate messages today

[Nick Mathewson]

On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:42:22PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
>      This afternoon my tor server began logging the following messages:
> 
> Dec 09 15:10:18.474 [notice] We're missing a certificate from authority tor26 with signing key 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000: launching request.
> Dec 09 15:11:19.530 [notice] We're missing a certificate from authority tor26 with signing key 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000: launching request.
> Dec 09 15:12:18.357 [notice] We're missing a certificate from authority tor26 with signing key 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000: launching request.
> 
> These messages continued at the rate of approximately one per minute until the
> final one:
> 
> Dec 09 16:03:08.509 [notice] We're missing a certificate from authority tor26 with signing key 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000: launching request.
> 
>      Does anyone know the reason for these messages?  And the reason why they
> eventually stopped appearing 53 minutes later?

I finally tracked these down; for the resolution, see comments on bug 569:

  http://bugs.noreply.org/flyspray/index.php?id=569&do=details

Many thanks to everybody who helped!

yrs,
-- 
Nick
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