Hi, I've got an apache server which keeps crashing when I hit it with a web browser.

humbletech99 · 11-28-2005, 09:42 AM

Hi, I've got an apache server which keeps crashing when I hit it with a web browser. The log shows:

Code:

[Mon Nov 28 15:31:50 2005] [notice] child pid 1126 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

This corresponds every time to when I go to it in a browser. I don't know why this is happening and I'm a bit stumped so I'd really appreciate it if anyone could help me out...

The processes are still there when you ps but it just won't serve a page. It's actually running php as well, but I don't know enough about php(I didn't write it) to know if something is going wrong in that code

Mad Scientist · 11-28-2005, 06:23 PM

Well, you can try the very simple PHP test page

Code:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

and then you will know it has nothing to do with the PHP. What distribution are you running? How did you install Apache? It sounds like you don't have a complete installation, but that's just a guess. Segmentation faults sometimes speak to this.

mhiggins · 11-28-2005, 09:11 PM

How big is your error log? Apache will fail to serve a page and child process responsible will segfault if the error log is > 2GB.

-Matt

humbletech99 · 11-29-2005, 09:08 AM

No, it's tiny, reading only 4096.

I'm gonna try re-emerging the bits for this but it's getting rediculous. I'm going back to source tarball if this doesn't work soon...

Darin · 11-29-2005, 11:36 AM

What distro? What apache version? Where was it installed from? (source, package, distro package?)

Did it ever work, or have you just installed the OS and turned on apache and it didn't work?

humbletech99 · 11-30-2005, 02:54 AM

It's Gentoo, apache 2.0.54 installed via emerge I believe and no it hasn't worked so far.

I'm trying source at the moment 2.0.50 and see how it goes...

jayakrishnan · 11-30-2005, 03:06 AM

http://lists.debian.org/debian-apach.../msg00005.html

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/..._20930420.html

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=24592