Bug#449027: vserver: [notice] child pid 27907 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

[Gerhard Gaußling <ggrubbish@web.de>]

Hello Stefan,
unfortunately the gdb problem is still there, and it stops the debug 
process. Therefore I tried it with ExceptionHooks and the core.dump 
module, to get something out of the apache:
#  gdb --args  /usr/sbin/apache.dbg -F -X -f /etc/apache/httpd.conf
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This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db 
library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/sbin/apache.dbg -F -X -f /etc/apache/httpd.conf
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Error while reading shared library symbols:
Cannot find new threads: generic error
Cannot find user-level thread for LWP 9920: generic error
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb7ff7010 in _dl_debug_state () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#1  0xbfffd860 in ?? ()
#2  0xb7fedc35 in dl_main () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#3  0xb7ffa3e8 in _dl_sysdep_start () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#4  0xb7febb46 in _dl_start () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#5  0xb7feb7b7 in _start () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2

This Cannot find user-level thread for LWP 9920: generic error gdb issue 
might came in because of the old kernel, that is used on my vserver:
# uname -a
Linux px11.ncsrv.de 2.6.9-023stab044.11-smp #1 SMP Sat Sep 29 13:36:25 
MSD 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

# apt-cache policy `dpkg -S /lib/ld-linux.so.2|awk -F: '{print $1}'`
libc6:
  Installed: 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2
  Candidate: 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2
  Version table:
 *** 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Bizarre, that the option -X doesn't avoid the threaded start of apache. 
I thought that option ensures, that apache will start in a single 
process?

# man apache |egrep "\-X"
Reformatting apache(8), please wait...
       apache  [ -X ] [ -F ] [ -R libexecdir ] [ -d serverroot ] [ -f 
config ]
       -X          Run in single-process mode, for internal debugging 
purposes

Even without -F and -f /etc/apache/httpd.conf I got the LWP eror again.
How can I ensure, that the bibc6 debug symbols are used? I'm afraid, 
that they are not used by apache.dbg? 

I'm stuck, but I'll try to do some trial and error with the modules 
though.

Is there a `lsmod` for apache modules?
#  /usr/sbin/apache.dbg -l 
Compiled-in modules:
  http_core.c
  mod_so.c
  mod_macro.c
suexec: disabled; invalid wrapper /usr/lib/apache/suexec

# egrep LoadModule /etc/apache/modules.conf|awk -F/ '{print $6}'
mod_log_config.so
mod_log_agent.so
mod_log_referer.so
mod_log_forensic.so
mod_mime_magic.so
mod_mime.so
mod_status.so
mod_info.so
mod_dir.so
mod_alias.so
mod_rewrite.so
mod_access.so
mod_auth.so
mod_setenvif.so
libphp5.so

What modules should I disable for debug purposes?

Thank you for your help!

Gerhard