[rt-users] Mason killing root httpd2 process

[John Giles]

I was able to fix this problem by uninstalling the mod_ssl rpm
 from my Mandrake 10.1 installation.

John Giles
john at trdlnk.com



On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:46:41 -0600, John Giles <john at trdlnk.com> wrote:

>
> RT 3.2.2
> Mandrake 10.1
> Apache 2
> FastCGI
> MySQL 4
>
> Please help !!
>
> Has anyone else experienced mason killing the root httpd2 process ?
> Sometimes the httpd2 crashes and sometimes the box totally locks up
> and has to be hard booted.
>
> Anyway, I get this error message in my httpd/error_log when the httpd2
> process crashes:
> -----------
> [Fri Mar 18 00:19:18 2005] [emerg] (35)Resource deadlock avoided: couldn't grab the accept mutex
> [Fri Mar 18 00:19:18 2005] [alert] Child 24695 returned a Fatal error...\nApache is exiting!
> -----------
>
> When this happens the httpd2 listener crashes and the children continue to
> run without a parent.  Killing the children and restarting httpd2 gets RT
> back up and running.
>
> Here's a `ps -ef f` output BEFORE the crash:
> root    5488     1  httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PHP4
> root    5489  5488  \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/advxsplitlogfile
> apache  5490  5488  \_ fcgi-p -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PH
> apache  5497  5490  |   \_ /usr/bin/perl /export/home/rt3/bin/mason_handler.fcgi
> apache  5499  5490  |   \_ /usr/bin/perl /export/home/rt3/bin/mason_handler.fcgi
> apache  5506  5490  |   \_ /usr/bin/perl /export/home/rt3/bin/mason_handler.fcgi
> apache  5507  5490  |   \_ /usr/bin/perl /export/home/rt3/bin/mason_handler.fcgi
> apache  5500  5488  \_ httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PH
> apache  5501  5488  \_ httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PH
> apache  5502  5488  \_ httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PH
> apache  5503  5488  \_ httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PH
> apache  5504  5488  \_ httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PH
> apache  5533  5488  \_ httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PH
> apache  5540  5488  \_ httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PH
>
> Here's a `ps -ef f` output AFTER the crash:
> root    5489     1  /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/advxsplitlogfile
> apache  5501     1  httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PHP4
> apache  5502     1  httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PHP4
> apache  5503     1  httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PHP4
> apache  5504     1  httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PHP4
> apache  5533     1  httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PHP4
> apache  5540     1  httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PHP4
> apache  5711     1  httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PHP4
> apache  5843     1  httpd2 -f /etc/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf -DAPACHE2 -DHAVE_PHP4
>
> John Giles
> john at trdlnk.com
>
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