On 2021-09-24 at 16:53:21 UTC-0400 (Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:53:21 -0400)
Bill Cole <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
On 2021-09-22 at 16:47:41 UTC-0400 (Wed, 22 Sep 2021 22:47:41 +0200)
Bjarne D Mathiesen <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
Bill Cole wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this and if anyone has
a sense of whether this is really a MacPorts-specific problem or if
it is (as I suspect but have not been able to confirm) a problem
with httpd.
I'm running apache 2.4.49 on
* 10.6.8
* 10.15.7
without any issues
That brackets the problem a bit.
Given the odd failure ("crashed on child side of fork pre-exec" with a
segfault) I suspect it is something specific to the platform, e.g.
compiler version, shared library versions, etc. and I'm experimenting
with rebuilding it in different ways to see if I can find a way to
make it work.
Currently running with '-X' as a workaround (doesn't fork...)
Closing the loop here:
Rebuilding httpd and everything it recursively depends on with clang-10
on the target system didn't touch the problem. Reverting to .48 didn't
touch the problem(!) Limping along and waiting for the .51 update
resolved the problem. I did not test .50, which lasted just a few days.
I'm not up to analyzing all the flux in the httpd code between those
versions, but there are enough core and mpm fixes that I'm satisfied
with vague handwaving about something jostling an optimization in the
wrong/right place and for 2 minor versions breaking it on one obsolete
platform.
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Bill Cole
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(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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