Bug#450831: apache2-mpm-prefork: apache does not start with: No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock error
Package: apache2-mpm-prefork
Version: 2.2.6-1
Severity: normal
Today on my box apache was down and did not start any more, this was the error from the logs:
[crit] (28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock
Configuration Failed
But there was plenty of space on the file system.
After googling around a bit I discovered the problem was in the semaphores and a way to solve the problem is:
ipcs -s | grep www-data | awk ' { print $2 } ' | xargs ipcrm sem
So I suppose there is a memory leak somewhere.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (200, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apache2-mpm-prefork depends on:
ii apache2. 2.2.6-2 Next generation, scalable, extenda
ii libapr1 1.2.7-8.2 The Apache Portable Runtime Librar
ii libaprut 1.2.7+dfsg-2 The Apache Portable Runtime Utilit
ii libc6 2.6.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdb4.4 4.4.20-8 Berkeley v4.4 Database Libraries [
ii libexpat 1.95.8-3.4 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libldap2 2.1.30-13.3 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpcre3 6.7-1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libpq5 8.2.4-2 PostgreSQL C client library
ii libsqlit 3.4.2-2 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libuuid1 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 universally unique id library
apache2-mpm-prefork recommends no packages.
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