[rt-users] reall odd apache2 crashes with blank pages

[Curtis Bruneau]

Understood, just saying you should still be able to use SSL without 
issues with the fixed driver.

Gabriel Cadieux wrote:
> yes, i understand that, but you have to take into consideration the fact that someone also mentioned disabling SSL altogether slowed their segfaults, and this is exactly what happened when i tried it as well. before i disabled SSL, i was getting several crashes per day, around 8 or so... constantly. this continued for almost a week. after disabling it, it went steady for a couple days between each segfault, for about another week, until everything finally turned out fine (so far anyways) when i downgraded DBD::mysql.. i haven't seen a segfault in logs since last friday.
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> logic forces me to conclude the problem was not necessarely caused, but most likely exacerbated by the SSL functionality being turned on.
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> -gabe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis Bruneau [mailto:curtisb at vianet.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:45 AM
> To: Gabriel Cadieux; rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] reall odd apache2 crashes with blank pages
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> I think it's just a bug in DBD:mysql, I had the same issue and it's a 
> well documented problem. I can't see why SSL would have any effect, it's 
> just a protocol not a driver.
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> Gabriel Cadieux wrote:
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>> after disabling SSL and downgrading DBD::mysql to 4.00.5 (from the buggy 4.00.7), i am happy to announce that there have been no segfaults on our RT server since last friday. i beleive each of these options must have been partially responsible for the problem... i will wait approx. another week and then consider this issue resolved due to the changes applied. i will let you all know how it turns out.
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>> -gabe
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: d tbsky [mailto:tbskyd at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:20 PM
>> To: Gabriel Cadieux
>> Cc: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
>> Subject: Re: [rt-users] reall odd apache2 crashes with blank pages
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>> 2008/9/30 Gabriel Cadieux <gcadieux at securetechnologies.ca>:
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>>> it seems i was too quick to assume that my disabling apache's SSL functionality worked to counter this issue;
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>>> the server just now crapped out AGAIN with the same symptoms: i clicked a link this morning after having a firefox window open on RT all night, and was once again greeted with a white page and a nice segfault on my tailf console... ;/ it also crashed several more times afterwards, every single time i did an F5 to try and refresh.
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>>> i have just downgraded to DBD::mysql 4.00.5 (from 4.00.7), and will report once more in the next few days on the issue.
>>>
>>> good luck to all affected by this ubiquitous issue.
>>>
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>> disable ssl  slow down the segfault. our rt system runs for 3 days. it
>> segfault almost every day before.
>> but the problem is still there. i now again wondering about mod_perl..
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