Paolo, I think the today's posting on GDAL-DEV
http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2006-January/007706.html tackles the same problem. And they provide a workaround for it. Armin Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Some further info about the crash: on another machine, the crash did not > occur, but appeared suddenly today after upgrading, so it must be some new > version of one package (perhaps apache itself? 2.0.55-3 where it does not > work, 2.0.54-5 where it does). > All the best. > pc > > At 15:43, gioved? 29 dicembre 2005, Paolo Cavallini has probably written: >> Hi all. >> I've reinstalled mapserver and mapscript, but I'm still having problems >> with mapscript crashing apache. From /var/log/apache2/error.log I get: >> >> [Thu Dec 29 15:28:59 2005] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down >> [Thu Dec 29 15:29:01 2005] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest >> authentication ... >> [Thu Dec 29 15:29:01 2005] [notice] Digest: done >> [Thu Dec 29 15:29:01 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.55 (Debian) PHP/4.4.0-4 >> mod_ssl/2.0.55 OpenSSL/0.9.8a configured -- resuming normal operations >> >> and when I switch on and off repeatedly a raster, the program hangs. >> Further attempts generate: >> [Thu Dec 29 15:37:26 2005] [notice] child pid 10118 exit signal >> Segmentation fault (11) >> >> This is related to window size: with smaller window, I get a crash at the >> 3rd or 4th "on", with a larger one, at the second. >> >> All the best. >> pc >