Re: libapreq: could not create/open temp file

[Stas Bekman]

Jean-Denis Girard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anybody already seen this error ???
> 
> The problem happens on a web site which has been online for the last 2 
> years without trouble.
> We are using the proxied Apache_1.3.20 / mod_perl-1.24, behind a light 
> front end Apache_1.3.20 / mod_ssl / mod_proxy_add_forward, on a Linux 
> server.
> 
> Last week we upgraded most components of the system (kernel, 
> libraries...) including Perl (5.6.0 to 5.6.1), then recompiled Apache, 
> mod_ssl, mod_perl, libapreq-0.33, and rebooted (Apache, mod_ssl, 
> mod_perl upgrade was planned for this month).
> 
> Everything worked flawlesly, the web site was still working, but after a 
> few days, visitors started to complain  that uplaods didn't work. 
> mod_perl dies with the message:
>     [libapreq] could not create/open temp file
> What is really funny, is that it works after rebooting the system, and 
> the error shows up later.
> I upgraded libapreq to 1.0, which didn't solve the problem. Next step 
> will be to upgrade APache, mod_perl, etc. but I would like some help.

Let's try to change apreq to give the real system error message, that 
should help. Try the patch at the end. Also apreq has its own list, 
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Index: c/apache_request.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/httpd-apreq/c/apache_request.c,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -r1.20 apache_request.c
--- c/apache_request.c  18 Feb 2002 16:48:27 -0000      1.20
+++ c/apache_request.c  8 Jun 2002 04:41:08 -0000
@@ -359,7 +359,9 @@
      }

      if ( tries == 0  || (fp = ap_pfdopen(r->pool, fd, "w+" "b") ) == 
NULL ) {
- 
ap_log_rerror(REQ_ERROR, "[libapreq] could not create/open temp file");
+ 
ap_log_rerror(REQ_ERROR,
+                      "[libapreq] could not create/open temp file: %s",
+                      strerror(errno));
        if ( fd >= 0 ) { remove(name); free(name); }
        return NULL;
      }

Index: c/apache_request.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/httpd-apreq/c/apache_request.h,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 apache_request.h
--- c/apache_request.h  26 Jun 2001 10:58:29 -0000      1.8
+++ c/apache_request.h  8 Jun 2002 04:41:08 -0000
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
  #include "http_main.h"
  #include "http_protocol.h"
  #include "util_script.h"
+#include <string.h>

  #ifdef  SFIO
  #include "sfio.h"

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