Bug#375369: apache2-mpm-prefork: consumes all available CPU on start after a crash

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* Sven Mueller (debian@incase.de) [060625 09:23]:
> Package: apache2-mpm-prefork
> Version: 2.0.54-5
> Severity: important
> 
> After a system crash, apache2 left an empty file behind
> (/var/run/apache2/__db.ssl_scache to be exact). On reboot,
> the file wasn't removed and when apache2 started, it consumed all
> available CPU cycles. The last message in /var/log/apache2/error.log
> was:
> [Sun Jun 25 17:07:20 2006] [info] Init: Generating temporary DH
> parameters (512/1024 bits)

Any reason to not just delete this file on starting apache?


Cheers,
Andi
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