> -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Fitzsimmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 06:32 > To: users@httpd.apache.org > Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache hangs on startup without error > messages - > doesn't spawn children > > > Here's a doozy of a problem has made me bleary eyed with lack > of sleep. > I can deal with errors, but not when there are no error messages. > Hopefully someone out there has experienced something like > this problem > before.
Just a couple of ideas... - DNS: is it working? If apache needs it to resolve IPs (eg, if you have VH tags containing a domain instead of an IP) and it isn't working, apache can get stuck. - Hanging forever is sometimes due to an errant firewall - it silently drops the packet rather than refusing the connection, that way an attacker can't distinguish between active security and network latency. Did you enable/adjust the FW (ipchains?) on the server? - you have: apache + server_1 = broken, apache + server_2 = works therefore server_1 != server_2 So what changed on server_1? Any chance of a re-install? Rgds, Owen Boyle Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > I have been running an Apache 2 server for several months on a Linux > Fedora Core 2 Virtual Private Server. The server has > guaranteed 256 MB > of RAM. The Apache 2 is used for development purposes only. > The Apache > is configured with mod_python and with subversion/webdav. > > Earlier today I try to access the web site and my browser hangs. It > does not say "connection refused", it does not say "connection > timeout," it hangs for as long as I let it, even as long as a half an > hour if I don't hit the stop button. > > When I do apachectl -k stop, it says, "httpd (no pid file) not > running." But the process list shows that it's still running. I kill > the process and the browser finally responds "connection closed." I > start the Apache again, try and connect, and the browser hangs once > again. I try cleaning out the PID files, rebooting the server, and > checking all the access and error log, but to no avail. > > Everything else on the VPS works fine. I have a version of Apache1.3 > running fine. SSH, the FTP server, and MySQL are all working too. My > VPS power panel shows that system resources are well below critical > levels. > > I get so frustrated I install a clean version of Apache, in a separate > folder, running on a separate port. But the exact same problem > happens! Then I try switching to a different server that I > run, and do > the exact same Apache installation - and it works! > > So for some reason Apache2 all of a sudden just stopped > deciding to run > on this one server, and I cannot do anything to get it back, not even > rebooting. > > On the server where Apache works, after I start it and I run ps -Af I > get: > > root 27642 1 0 15:27 ? 00:00:00 > /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start > nobody 27643 27642 0 15:27 ? 00:00:00 > /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start > nobody 27644 27642 0 15:27 ? 00:00:00 > /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start > nobody 27645 27642 0 15:27 ? 00:00:00 > /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start > nobody 27646 27642 0 15:27 ? 00:00:00 > /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start > > But on the server where it doesn't work I just get this: > root 20352 1 0 15:48 ? 00:00:00 > /usr/local/apache3/bin/httpd -k start > > So I have decided that the problem is that Apache is not > spawning child > processes. > The browser makes a socket connection to the server, but Apache has no > child process to pass the connection off to, so the browser just waits > forever to get a response back. > > The question is, how in the world do I fix this? 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