I installed locally Apache 2.2.11 for testing and module worked without problems. I used following configuration options as suggested: ./configure --prefix=/home/twinkle/apache_test/apache-2.2.11 --with-mpm=worker --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-modules=most --enable-bucketeer
So it seems, that there has been a bug in some earlier Apache-versions (or could the reason for segmentation fault lie somewhere else e.g. the way Red Hat(/CentOS) builds Apache ?). Thanks for the valuable hints. Jouni