Bhasker, Issue resolved. Apache starts up. Thank you very much for your response, which got me thinking in another direction: To answer your questions, the virtual hosts are enabled. The ip address did not change; I am using the same /etc/hosts file.
I modified my /etc/hosts file. In particular, I commented out the line with sbcglobal in it. Now apache works! This is how my /etc/hosts looks now: ---------- 127.0.0.1 localhost <machine name> #127.0.1.1 <name>.sbcglobal.net <name> 192.168.1.2 <alias> 192.168.1.3 <other host> IPv6 stuff here... ---------------------- But, I don't understand why it works now, or why it would't work with the line in! It worked in Etch. I guess, I will have to let go of it for now. It is late in California :-) Thanks again, Vazrik ________________________________ From: Bhasker C V <bhas...@unixindia.com> To: Vazrik Israelian <vaz...@yahoo.com> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2009 12:38:42 AM Subject: Re: can not start apache in lenny Do you have virtual hosts enabled ? did you bind the machine to a particular ip (which may have changed now) ? the reason i am asking is looks like getaddrinfo is failing and i am assuming this may be because it is not able to bind to an interface On Fri, 1 May 2009, Vazrik Israelian wrote: > I recently upgraded to lenny (stable), and I can not get apache to start. It > fails at > boot time, and when starting it manually, it fails the same way: > > #/etc/init.d/apache2 start > > Starting web server: apache2apache2: ../sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c:1463: > rfc3484_sort: > Assertion `src->results[i].native == -1 || src->results[i].native == > a2_native' failed. > /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: line 83: 4369 Aborted $HTTPD > ${APACHE_ARGUMENTS} > -k $ARGV > failed! > > I have been at this for a while. All my searches, and readings did not > result to any > solution. > > sources.list: > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > # deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ stable main > > Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Vazrik > > Bhasker C V Registered linux user #306349