2008/11/5 Ariel Mauricio Nunez Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Ariel Mauricio Nunez Gomez
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Graham Dumpleton
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2008/11/5 Ariel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >    > I am using mod_wsgi for deployment but recently my apache
>>> > installation on
>>> >    > ubuntu 8.04 just locks after any start, stop or reload commands.
>>> >    >
>>> >    > I uninstalled it, wiped configuration settings, uninstallled
>>> > mod_python that
>>> >    > was installed just before it did not respond anymore.
>>> >
>>> >    It is a known problem that loading mod_python and mod_wsgi at the
>>> > same
>>> >    time causes problems if Python not installed with a usable shared
>>> >    library.
>>> >
>>> >     http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/InstallationIssues
>>> >
>>> >    > Is there any other server I can install that works with modwsgi?
>>> > (I am using
>>> >    > trac and django on the same server configured via mod_wsgi)
>>> >
>>> >    You mean other than Apache?
>>> >
>>> >    It seems you haven't explored properly yet why you were having the
>>> >    problems you were.
>>> >
>>> >    Graham
>>> > -----
>>> >
>>> > Yeah, I really don't know what to do next, I already disabled
>>> > mod_python.
>>> >
>>> > And tried rebooting my server but even though it says it is going for
>>> > reboot it does not do so. (It is an Amazon EC2 instance so I am kind
>>> > of afraid of terminating the instance, although I already made a
>>> > backup of the most important stuff)
>>> >
>>> > Any advice on how to debug this? I checked apache logs but nothing
>>> > there.
>>>
>>> When you say 'rebooting my server', do you mean just Apache or the
>>> whole system? I don't know how Amazon EC2 works.
>>>
>>> If you mean just Apache, do be aware that when removing mod_python,
>>> generally necessary to do a full 'stop' of Apache. It isn't always
>>> enough to do an equivalent of 'apachectl restart' because mod_python
>>> doesn't cleanup properly and tends no to unload correctly on a restart
>>> where Apache parent process persists. Therefore causes issues for
>>> mod_wsgi on the restart even though mod_python technically now
>>> disabled.
>>>
>>> If you have a site you can point me to which explains how Amazon EC2
>>> is set up, or if you or anyone else can explain what it really is,
>>> ie., VPS, shared system of some sort, whether you have shell access
>>> etc, that may help.
>>
>> Amazon EC2 is a VPS, but the instance does not have persistent storage,
>> instead it is always loaded from an image (called AMI), that image is
>> usually stored in S3. I did one snapshot after I finished configuring my
>> server, but that was 4 months ago and I am afraid I (may) not have
>> everything backed up. (Trac repos, mercurial repos, django database
>> records).
>> I have full ssh access and root account.
>>
>>>
>>> Anything from the Apache error log files would
>>> also help, particularly the startup message which lists what modules
>>> are loaded.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else here got experience with Amazon EC2 with or without
>>> mod_wsgi?
>>>
>>> Graham
>>>
>>
>> Well, I did '/etc/init.d/apache2 stop' with  no luck, then I just ps -A |
>> grep apache and killed everything.
>> After that a '/etc/init.d/apache2 start' just hangs with no error on
>> apache logs.
>>
>> I check system messages and it turns out:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log/apache2#  tail -f /var/log/messages
>> Nov  4 23:59:47 pinax kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process bash (pid 23795),
>> cs:ip 73:0016b817
>> Nov  4 23:59:48 pinax kernel: printk: 2 messages suppressed.
>> Nov  4 23:59:48 pinax kernel: 4gb seg fixup, process sshd (pid 23767),
>> cs:ip 73:0047cc6c
>> Nov  4 23:59:54 pinax kernel: printk: 109 messages suppressed.
>>
>> Maybe it is directly related to Amazon machines:
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/ec2ubuntu/browse_thread/thread/a145b228d83c0b71
>>
> I followed the instructions here and apache started running again :)
>
> http://ericmason.net/2008/09/amazon-ec2-and-4gb-seg-fixup/
>
> I do not know what really happened, but it was triggered by mod_python and
> my machine crashed horrible not even letting me restart it (via shutdown -r
> now)
>
> Thanks Graham anyway for your support.

Okay. Another weird issue for me to remember though in case someone
sees it in the future. :-)

Graham

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