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Old 03-01-2012, 08:31 AM   #1
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Question Strange error starting apache - not showing up in google ;-)


Ok, so it's a gentoo distro on a virtual box patched up to the latest of everything, and etc-update and revdep-rebuild are not asking to do anything either. I'm trying to start Apache using any of the following:
Code:
/etc/init.d/apache2 start
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
apache2ctl start
apache2ctl restart
and when doing so I get:

Code:
 * Starting apache2 ...
 * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/apache2'        [ ok ]
which it clearly isn't, because I would like to see it running. Not sure what you'd need to see in the way of conf files and the like so do let me know. What I can tell you is that an
Code:
apache2ctl configtest
came back with no errors, so in that sense things are just fine.

As ever, your ideas, suggestions, and solutions gratefully accepted!

Kind Regards
Marcus
 
Old 03-01-2012, 09:58 AM   #2
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don't use the service script. run the httpd binary in foreground with debugging as a starting point for info. You've also not mentioend the apache error_log file... is it OK?
 
Old 03-01-2012, 10:06 AM   #3
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Ah, well the error_log tells me this:
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[Thu Mar 01 16:03:35 2012] [alert] (EAI 3)Temporary failure in name resolution: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "bab2"
 
Old 03-01-2012, 10:13 AM   #4
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... which has led me to the solution for the problem. There was no alias for bab2 in my /etc/hosts file. Thanks so much acid_kewpie, that really resolved matters for me!
 
  


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