On 25 Oct, Stephane Benoit wrote:
> I have recently upgraded from RH6.0 to RH6.1
> I'm using Apache 1.3.9, mod-perl 1.21 with perl5.00503 recompiled for
> the occasion, as well as mod_perl, and it core dumps just before
> spawning child httpd processes.
> I had no trouble before on RH6.0 with Apache 1.3.6/mod_perl 1.21.
> I use a httpd.conf with some <Perl> tags that are executed properly. The
> same config file still runs on another RH6.0 server without problems.
> Could it be a glibc problem ?
> gdb tells me something like "couldn't access memory at 0x404...." before
> the segmentation fault.
> I'm going nuts.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Stephane.
There has been quite a lot of talk along these lines over the last week
or so. It seems there are problems with the dynamic loading of mod_perl
with apache as installed via the RedHat rpm's. I have two boxes set up
with Apache/mod_perl. One worked perfectly well with RedHat's
installation, the other showed the problems you describe. The solution
was to build Apache and mod_perl from source and statically link
mod_perl. Some one on this list has produced source rpm's for this
purpose but I have not tried them. Either get the tarballs and do it
yourself, or search the list for the reference to the source rpm's.
--
John Reid
Senior Analyst/Programmer
Open Connect (Ireland) Ltd
http://www.openconnect.ie/
