I've been watching the log files and restarting the server for a while now. Looks like the child may be starting before the parent has completely opened and written to all of the pipes.
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: >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. > > >