not sure, but this may be relevant:
http://perl.apache.org/guide/troubleshooting.html#Evil_things_might_happen_when_us
cliff rayman
genwax.com
"C. R. Oldham" wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> My Apache core dumps on graceful restart. I've noticed that it only
> happens after mod_perl pages are accessed, and it seems to have
> something to do with Mysql access as well. A backtrace from gdb
> indicated the problem was in do_obj_cleanup (maybe a spelling error
> there--I had the core file but it disappeared from my /tmp directory
> after an unexpected reboot). This is on Debian Linux (Potato) with a
> 2.2.13 kernel.
>
> I thought the problem was caused because I was running mod_perl as a
> DSO, but after rebuilding Apache so perl was statically linked the
> problem did not go away. Mysql access via perl is through DBI 1.13 and
> the Perl Msql-Mysql-DBD 1.2210. Perl is at 5.005_03, from the Debian
> package.
>
> I also have some PHP scripts that access Mysql, but if I run Apache and
> never touch mod_perl pages it does not core after accessing the
> PHP/Mysql stuff.
>
> Has anyone seen this? Should I care that Apache segfaults on graceful
> restart?
>
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