Apache crash: "Child returned a Fatal error"??
Hi,
This weekend something weird happened on one of our test servers. I came
in the office today, to find Apache crashed.. Looking at the logs, I
found these entries:
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[Sat Aug 30 06:26:02 2003] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful
restart
[Sat Aug 30 06:26:06 2003] [notice] Apache configured -- resuming normal
operations
[Sat Aug 30 06:26:06 2003] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper:
/usr/lib/apache/suexec)
[Sat Aug 30 06:26:06 2003] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default:
sysvsem)
accept_mutex_off: Identifier removed
[Sat Aug 30 06:27:48 2003] [alert] Child 22425 returned a Fatal error...
Apache is exiting!
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So, apparently after the logrotation things went bad. Later that day, at
23:57, apache crashed.
I'm using Debian/stable (Woody) with kernel 2.4.18 and Apache is using
PHP4/MySQL and mod_ssl.
This is pretty bad, since most of my production servers here run
Debian/stable as well, and it's making me a bit nervous.. Does anyone
know what could be going on?
Regards,
--
Rodi Evers <debian@hbh-it.nl>
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