I think the scenario to replicate is:
1) start as service
2) modify conf file (with typo)
3) restart
4) modify conf file (fix typo)
5) restart
6) restart
The call stack I'm getting (main->ap_run_post_config->mime_post_config->ap_getword_conf->substring_conf)
shows me a crash in substring_conf, and the pointer from apr_palloc is bogus.
Interestingly ;-( this occurs in the middle of the parsing of mime.types.
All the allocs to this point are fine.
The machine is NOT out of memory (I'm typing this on the crashed box, with debugger in session).
If I can offer any more information, please let me know.
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