Subject: apache2-common: apache2 dies "cannot allocate shared memory" Package: apache2-common Version: 2.0.50-12 Severity: important
after a power failure the server comes up normally, but apache2 fails starting with: error.log: [Tue Sep 07 20:14:36 2004] [info] Init: Initializing OpenSSL library [Tue Sep 07 20:14:36 2004] [info] Init: Seeding PRNG with 512 bytes of entropy [Tue Sep 07 20:14:36 2004] [info] Init: Generating temporary RSA private keys (512/1024 bits) [Tue Sep 07 20:14:36 2004] [info] Init: Generating temporary DH parameters (512/1024 bits) [Tue Sep 07 20:14:36 2004] [error] Cannot allocate shared memory: (17)File exists # ls -l /var/log/apache2/ssl_scache -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2004-09-06 07:29 /var/log/apache2/ssl_scache removing this file helps, but somehow there should be a setting, which allows apache2 to come up by itself. is this the same thing as in: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78019 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-240.html ? -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-k7-smp Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US Versions of packages apache2-common depends on: ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7d-5 SSL shared libraries ii openssl 0.9.7d-5 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush