Re: Apache dies silently?
You're probably using unstable, are using PHP4 packages, and do not 
include PHP4 support with apache-ssl. Your system probably chugged along 
happily because you haven't done any apt-get update && apt-get upgrade 
for a while. At least, that's how I got burned.
There's some kind of conflict with PHP4 and apache in Unstable. The 
following worked for me:
more /etc/apt/preferences
Package: php4
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: php4-mysql
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: php4-imap
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: php4-cgi
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: php4-pear
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: php.*
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 500
(Pins the PHP4 stuff to stable until this mess gets straightened out!). 
Thanks to Fabio Massimo Di Nitto from the debian-apache team for helping 
me figure out what what up.
Ah well... that's why it's named unstable!
--Rich
j2 wrote:
I have the following
 
cookiemonster:~# dpkg -l | grep -ir apache
ii  apache         1.3.27.1-3     Versatile, high-performance HTTP server
ii  apache-common  1.3.27.1-3     Support files for all Apache webservers
ii  apache-ssl     1.3.27.1-3     Versatile, high-performance HTTP 
server with
 
All of a sudden apache dies silently, nothing in any logs, it just never 
starts up. apache-ssl runs fine tho. I did a "strace apache" which didnt 
really reveal anything that i could see. Quite frankly, i am not even 
sure how to start to debug this one? The server has been running fine 
for ages?
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