I have a mod_perl based module running a service on an openVZ slice.
It was working fine for a few weeks, but when I went to use it today I
get delivered an empty page and in the apache error.log:
child exit signal Illegal instruction (4)
Which AFAIK is a very strange thing (SIGILL); actual perl errors are
usually explicit, and passed on from the interpreter. To make sure the
problem wasn't in my code, I replaced the module with a one liner:
sub handler {
return SERVER_ERROR;
}
Same thing. Ie, suddenly perl modules are working. I did not compile
apache or mod_perl myself.
Anyone have any ideas about how I can solve this or debug it further?
I have been playing around with small max stack sizes (ulimit -s 256),
but resetting that to 8192 and restarting apache did not alleviate the
problem.
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