Hi all,
system: Windows Vista Business, latest SP's, Apache HTTPd 2.2.11, MSI
installation.
I've had a long-running well-working Apache, no problems, changed some
configs today and restarted Apache and all was fine and dandy. Then I
installed a new video driver today and after restart, Apache didn't
start at all anymore with the following message in error.log:
[notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) configured -- resuming normal operations
[notice] Server built: Dec 10 2008 00:10:06
[crit] (22)Invalid argument: Parent: Failed to create the child process.
[crit] (OS 6)The handle is invalid. : master_main: create child process
failed. Exiting.
[notice] Parent: Forcing termination of child process 36
I tried the following things already and spent the better part of today
trying to resolve this, to no avail:
- restarted, re-installed and minimized the configuration to the bare
essentials (no php, perl etc)
- rollback to last restore point, so driver issues should be gone
- disabled (exited!) any firewall, virus scanner, windows protection
- tried several ways of reinstallation, each time completely removing
old installation. Previously, a basic install worked on my system
- google didn't give me new ideas
- cleared arp, flushed dns, tried other ports then port 80
- checked configuration with httpd -t .
- ran httpd with -e debug (output from error.log below).
- used SysInternals tools to check for any access denies or other weird
things, but nothing of a sort
I'm running out of ideas. I don't know what "Invalid argument" means
here. Though I am a programmer, I have not yet tried to install the
source or tried to debug, it seemed to daunting.
Any help, hints, pointers would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
-- Abel --
PS: this question was also asked at experts-exchange, but got little
response:
The full log from httpd -k start -l debug:
Starting the Apache2.2 service
The Apache2.2 service is running.
mod_so.c(246): loaded module actions_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module alias_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module asis_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module
auth_basic_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module
authn_default_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module
authn_file_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module
authz_default_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module
authz_groupfile_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module
authz_host_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module
authz_user_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module
autoindex_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module cgi_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module dir_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module env_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module
include_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module isapi_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module
log_config_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module mime_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module
negotiation_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module
setenvif_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:43 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) configured --
resuming normal operations
[Fri May 15 19:56:43 2009] [notice] Server built: Dec 10 2008 00:10:06
[Fri May 15 19:56:43 2009] [crit] (22)Invalid argument: Parent: Failed
to create the child process.
[Fri May 15 19:56:43 2009] [crit] (OS 6)The handle is invalid. :
master_main: create child process failed. Exiting.
[Fri May 15 19:56:43 2009] [notice] Parent: Forcing termination of child
process 36
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