Here's a doozy of a problem has made me bleary eyed with lack of sleep. I can deal with errors, but not when there are no error messages. Hopefully someone out there has experienced something like this problem before. I have been running an Apache 2 server for several months on a Linux Fedora Core 2 Virtual Private Server. The server has guaranteed 256 MB of RAM. The Apache 2 is used for development purposes only. The Apache is configured with mod_python and with subversion/webdav. Earlier today I try to access the web site and my browser hangs. It does not say "connection refused", it does not say "connection timeout," it hangs for as long as I let it, even as long as a half an hour if I don't hit the stop button. When I do apachectl -k stop, it says, "httpd (no pid file) not running." But the process list shows that it's still running. I kill the process and the browser finally responds "connection closed." I start the Apache again, try and connect, and the browser hangs once again. I try cleaning out the PID files, rebooting the server, and checking all the access and error log, but to no avail. Everything else on the VPS works fine. I have a version of Apache1.3 running fine. SSH, the FTP server, and MySQL are all working too. My VPS power panel shows that system resources are well below critical levels. I get so frustrated I install a clean version of Apache, in a separate folder, running on a separate port. But the exact same problem happens! Then I try switching to a different server that I run, and do the exact same Apache installation - and it works! So for some reason Apache2 all of a sudden just stopped deciding to run on this one server, and I cannot do anything to get it back, not even rebooting. On the server where Apache works, after I start it and I run ps -Af I get: root 27642 1 0 15:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start nobody 27643 27642 0 15:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start nobody 27644 27642 0 15:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start nobody 27645 27642 0 15:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start nobody 27646 27642 0 15:27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start But on the server where it doesn't work I just get this: root 20352 1 0 15:48 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache3/bin/httpd -k start So I have decided that the problem is that Apache is not spawning child processes. The browser makes a socket connection to the server, but Apache has no child process to pass the connection off to, so the browser just waits forever to get a response back. The question is, how in the world do I fix this? Why did it happen all of a sudden out of nowhere? Halp appreciated! --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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