From: "Dwayne Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 1:45 PM
> William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > > >>> Was this a soft restart apache -k restart or a hard restart? > >>> > >>I just clicked on the restart computer option on the shutdown menu. I > >>did not gracefully stop the apache service first. > >> > > > >Yup. If you use Mark's procexp program from sysinterals.com you will see you > >have no apPID_shutdown event. That Event is critical for shutdown, the rest > >of the errors you see follow from that missing bit. > > > The apPID_shutdown event is what comes out of an apache -k restart or > apache -k shutdown? What does Windows service manager do to stop a > service...yank the rug out from under it? SCM -> Apache parent SCM monitor thread : SHUTDOWN monitor thread -> send ourself the shutdown_event signal parent main thread -> Ugh, shutdown? Ok, tell children to die. children didn't die? Kill em. stop program. That's the nutshell at least. > Since my error occurred on startup (I believe), why does the improper > shutdown of Apache influence it's startup? It shouldn't, but the CreateEvent stuff seems hosed. Try setting the service to 'Log in as a Specific User' (you) and see if that changes anything.
