Bug#497534: apache2.2-common: /etc/init.d/apache2 / apache2ctl not reporting error return code when apache2 segfaults

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

On Thursday 04 September 2008, Olivier Berger wrote:
> Le mardi 02 septembre 2008 à 22:41 +0200, Stefan Fritsch a écrit :
> > In this case, the segfault happens after apache has gone into the
> > background. There is no way for the init script to learn about
> > the crash or for apache to print something to stderr.
> > 
> > I don't know why nothing appears in the error log, though.
> 
> I guess because it's still reading the conf file... and has not yet
> setup the logging infrastructure ?

The bug that nothing appears in the error log will be fixed in 2.4:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1151234

However maybe we could put some logic in the init script that follows 
the error log and waits for the "resuming normal operations" line and 
only afterwards prints "OK".