[afnog] HTTPD segmentation fault problem

[Banoba Ezra]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 18:10 +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:20:23PM +0300, Banoba Ezra wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > I'm having some trouble with apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 on a FreeBSD
> > 4.10 Stable. After a reboot, I suddenly have my formally working apache
> > installation core dumped on start and still failed to trace the cause.
> 
> Is this a repeatable problem? Does it dump core in exactly the same place
> each time you restart it?

Yes it is dumps core every time I try to start it.

> 
> What caused the problem to start happening? Was it after upgrading from
> 4.10-RELEASE to 4.10-STABLE ?

The system has been running 4.10-STABLE for several months now. The
upgrade is not recent.

I did cvsup the ports collection tho, and upgraded ClamAV only just
before my problems started. Could there be a corelation?

> 
> I learned the hard way, that if you cvsup the source and rebuild the
> kernel, you *must* upgrade the remainder of the system (buildworld /
> installworld) according to the instructions at
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
> 
> otherwise really strange things happen. In my case, netstat wasn't working
> at all, and this was after upgrading the kernel only a matter of days after
> the original release. Doing the buildworld/installworld process fixed it
> (follow handbook section 19.4.1 at minimum)
> 
> There's more info at the bottom of /usr/src/UPDATING, where it says "To
> rebuild everything and install it on the current system"
> 
> > Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done.
> > #0  0x2868e44e in Perl_av_extend ()
> > from /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.2/mach/CORE/libperl.so
> > (gdb) quit
> 
> At that point, try typing "bt" and see if you get a useful backtrace.
> 
> Are you actually running mod_perl? Otherwise it's hard to see why libperl is
> being loaded.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian.