Package: apache Version: 1.3.26-0woody3 Severity: important Tags: woody When reloading apache from logrotate, sometimes the master process exits and leaves the children running. When that happens, apache still listens to port 80 but does not answer requests (ie. you connect with eg. netcat, but the connection just hangs when a "GET /" is sent, which it would normally answer to). This happens seldom; once every or every second month.
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. Regards /Rasmus -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux carlsberg 2.4.25 #1 l�r feb 21 13:16:30 CET 2004 i586 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=da_DK Versions of packages apache depends on: ii apache-common 1.3.26-0woody3 Support files for all Apache webse ii dpkg 1.9.21 Package maintenance system for Deb ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb2 2:2.7.7.0-7 The Berkeley database routines (ru ii libexpat1 1.95.2-6 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii logrotate 3.5.9-8 Log rotation utility ii mime-support 3.18-1.3 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii perl 5.6.1-8.6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl [perl5] 5.6.1-8.6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
