Bug#450831: apache2-mpm-prefork: apache does not start with: No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock error

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

Hi,

sorry for the late response.

On Sunday 11 November 2007, Alessandro Polverini wrote:
> 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.

this usually happens when apache2 has been killed with SIGKILL, and 
there is nothing it can do about it. I will add a note to 
README.Debian.

Cheers,
Stefan