Bug#280871: apache-ssl: Segfault on reload, disk full
Package: apache-ssl
Version: 1.3.26.1+1.48-0woody3
Severity: important
On a woody+security-updates system with apache-ssl+gcache and php4 installed,
the latest security update (1.3.26.1+1.48-0woody3) seems to cause some
trouble.
Apache creates the files session_mm_apache0.mem and
session_mm_apache0.sem in the /tmp directory upon startup. The *.mem
file is 64 MB in size but only created as a sparse file, needing 12 kB
on disk.
Each morning, logrotate does a reload of apache. What happens is that it
doesn't handle the reload properly and crashes.
Additionally, the mem file is fully used then, filling up /tmp and thus
blocking other services such as a cvs-server from working.
(I'm not sure whether the crash provokes the fillup or the other way
around.)
It should be noted that the system uses a UML kernel but this shouldn't make
any
difference. This behaviour did not happen a week ago, which I think
correlates to the security update.
A (user-level) login can be granted for further inspection, should that
be necessary.
Josef
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux vs011 2.4.26-1um #4 Tue Apr 20 17:09:55 PDT 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apache-ssl depends on:
ii apache-common 1.3.26-0woody5 Support files for all Apache
webse
ii dpkg 1.9.21 Package maintenance system for
Deb
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
an
ii libdb2 2:2.7.7.0-7 The Berkeley database routines
(ru
ii libexpat1 1.95.2-6 XML parsing C library - runtime
li
ii libssl0.9.6 0.9.6c-2.woody.6 SSL shared libraries
ii logrotate 3.5.9-8 Log rotation utility
ii mime-support 3.18-1.3 MIME files 'mime.types' &
'mailcap
ii openssl 0.9.6c-2.woody.6 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary
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ii perl 5.6.1-8.7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl [perl5] 5.6.1-8.7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
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