httpd segfaults

[Mike McGrath]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Orton [mailto:jorton at redhat.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 10:10 AM
> To: Mike McGrath
> Cc: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: httpd segfaults
> 
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:18:25AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > I should probably take this to the apache lists but I figured I'd 
> > start here first.
> > 
> > I'm running a reverse proxy server on FC3.  It has multiple 
> websites, 
> > pointing to multiple application servers.  Every now and 
> then I start 
> > getting segfaults:
> > 
> > [Tue Nov 22 09:42:15 2005] [notice] child pid 19701 exit signal
> ...
> > 
> > I can't quite tell what is causing the segfaults, though I 
> believe it 
> > is caused after a report or some other page on an 
> application server 
> > takes too long and times out.  After these segfaults start 
> happening 
> > some but not all of my sites become unavailable.  It seems that all 
> > sites that require authentication fail, those that do not require 
> > authentication work.  I'm using mod_auth_ldap to 
> authenticate against 
> > an AD server.  I have been unable to re-create the error myself.
> > 
> > I'm running FC3, httpd-2.0.53-3.3
> 
> There are a bunch of known crashes in mod_ldap/mod_auth_ldap 
> which are fixed in the latest FC4 httpd updates but aren't in 
> FC3.  I'd need to see a backtrace from a crash to be sure 
> that was the cause; add "CoreDumpDirectory /tmp" to 
> httpd.conf, restart httpd, and get a backtrace using gdb.
> 
> I'd advise updating to FC4 if you can.
> 
> joe
> 


I've added the CoreDumpDirectory directive to my config file, I'm
planning on upgrading this machine to FC4 sometime before the end of 05.
Thanks for your help.

	-Mike