Hi, after some browsing of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] archives, I see now that my AuthDBI problem is the same as this thread (Segfault on DBI->Connect). I tried the workaround suggested by wil (*sock=0 before mysql_init(sock)) to no avail. Here's a backtrace from gdb httpd -X. Has any headway been made on this problem? If you need more information, let me know... Drew Starting program: /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -X Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. mysql_close (mysql=0x0) at libmysql.c:1555 1555 end_server(mysql); (gdb) bt #0 mysql_close (mysql=0x0) at libmysql.c:1555 #1 0x403bf254 in __DTOR_END__ () from /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so #2 0x403ac0dd in mysql_dr_connect () from /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so #3 0x403ac420 in _MyLogin () from /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so #4 0x403ac48f in mysql_db_login () from /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so #5 0x403affd8 in XS_DBD__mysql__db__login () from /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so #6 0x80eba06 in Perl_pp_entersub () #7 0x81159ad in Perl_runops_standard () #8 0x80bddf1 in perl_call_sv () #9 0x4039ce81 in XS_DBI_dispatch () from /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBI/DBI.so #10 0x80eba06 in Perl_pp_entersub () #11 0x81159ad in Perl_runops_standard () #12 0x80bddf1 in perl_call_sv () #13 0x806426b in perl_call_handler () #14 0x8063c1d in perl_run_stacked_handlers () #15 0x806295d in perl_handler () #16 0x807c013 in ap_invoke_handler () #17 0x808f559 in process_request_internal () #18 0x808f5bc in ap_process_request () #19 0x8086e5e in child_main () #20 0x8086fec in make_child () #21 0x8087149 in startup_children () #22 0x8087776 in standalone_main () #23 0x8087f03 in main () #24 0x400cc1eb in __libc_start_main (main=0x8087bbc <main>, argc=2, argv=0xbffffd74, init=0x80605a4 <_init>, fini=0x8115a8c <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000a610 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffd6c) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:90 (gdb)