> Apache/ modperl starts up fine, but if I try to restart the service, it > will not survive. > > Please share with me any tips to improve the situation. I'm open to any > ideas.
Foo, you missed my point all together. Something in YOUR PERL APP is opening resources that are "locked" and will prevent another process from obtaining them for approx 60 seconds. What, why and how are your puzzles, I'm afraid. There's nothing in the "generic" apache/perl/modperl that did this to you. More debugging logs, finer debugging details might help you pin it down.
