On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:34:21PM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > >> This is a very strange, unreproducible problem that occurs frequently > >> enough that I'm concerned. > > This sounds like hardware failure. Have you tried running memtest86 > > on the system? (I saw you said it seems stable otherwise, but I'd > > check that first.) > > Yes, all of the diagnostics check out. Memory tests fine. Although the > problem is not always reproducible, it always 100% consistent when it > happens: remove some virtualhosts, start apache, and add them back in, > restart apache, and everything is fine. > > The machine has been up for as much as five or six months at a time > without any problems at all. It's only when (1) apache is upgraded or > (2) the machine is rebooted that I've witnessed this problem. > > I know it sounds more like a car problem than a software problem, but I'm > pretty convinced it's not hardware.
As a Lisper i like car problems ;-) A quick shot into the dark: could this be DNS related? I think you never told us what sort of virtual hosting you do. Iff you have enough virtual hosts whose domain name doesn't resolve _and_ your server is set up in a way that requires DNS lookups _and_ you have a lot of virtual hosts the startup process might timeout. Hmm, doesn't sound too likely ... Ralf Mattes > -- > Adam Rosi-Kessel > http://adam.rosi-kessel.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]