Hej Rasmus,
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Rasmus Bøg Hansen wrote:
Package: apache
Version: 1.3.26-0woody3
Severity: important
Tags: woody
[SNIP]
I have loaded PHP4 and mod_ssl; no other external modules are configured
nor installed.
A log snippet from this morning:
[Thu Mar 11 07:00:31 2004] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart
accept_mutex_on: Identifier removed
[Thu Mar 11 07:00:36 2004] [notice] Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux
PHP/4.1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6g configured -
- resuming normal operations
[Thu Mar 11 07:00:36 2004] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper:
/usr/lib/apache/suexec)
[Thu Mar 11 07:00:36 2004] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)
[Thu Mar 11 07:00:36 2004] [alert] Child 31317 returned a Fatal error...
Apache is exiting!
No other logs tell anything about where the problem comes from.
Logrotate just runs /etc/init.d/apache reload.
The server is not busy in any way; nor does it serve large files. It
runs a simple web page and some php webmail (IMP2) over ssl; nothing fancy.
Unfortunatly this is a known problem that seems to be caused by several
different factors (php4, ssl, libcrypto and libc) and it can't be fixed in
woody. We are still waiting for a fix in sid (where bugs have been filed
towards the relevant packages). A possible workaround could be to change
the restart with a stop and start but this behaviour is unpredictable and
not always reproducible.
Mange Tak
Fabio
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