Re: apache2 lenny backup crashes
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:51:36 +0200
Patrick Valsecchi <patrick@thus.ch> wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 June 2011 09:34:15 Dominic Benson wrote:
> > On 30 Jun 2011, at 07:01, Patrick Valsecchi wrote:
> > > I was interested in the SNI feature for name base SSL virtual
> > > hosts in apache. So I needed a fresher version of apache than the
> > > one available in Lenny. I found one in Debian backports, so I've
> > > installed it. Since then, apache crashes (coredump of a
> > > child /usr/sbin/apache2 process) each time I go to a location
> > > where mod-auth-mysql is used.
> > >
> > > I guess this is because the libapache2-mod-auth-mysql (I have
> > > version 4.3.9-11) has not been backported and this module is not
> > > compatible with the version 2.2.16-6+squeeze1~bpo50+1 of apache.
> > > And I fear it's not the only apache module that has this problem.
> >
> > The issue with backporting modules like this one is that they
> > depend on two packages that are in backports, but a user may very
> > well not want to use backported versions of both.
> >
> > The surest approach would be to get the source package and rebuild
> > against the relevant apache2 -dev. If that doesn't appeal, if you
> > install libmysqlclient16 from backports, then you can probably use
> > the updated module package straight from Squeeze.
>
> Seems like a dependencies hell. OK, I'll go another route, then:
> upgrade to squeeze. Thanks for your help.
>
>
Probably a better idea anyways, now that lenny is oldstable. The
apache2 backport was done on a contract basis, and the client was only
interested in the core modules.. So I've not played with any of the
external modules.
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