Hi all, Okay, the title isn't very descriptive, but I haven't much to work with :-/ We're having a recurrent problem with Apache 2.2 on two Solaris 9 boxes: it hangs, and becomes unresponsive. Connecting to the port 80, the connection is established, but stays stuck, and send no data at all. I think it started with version 2.2, though it's difficult to say when. When the problem occurs, a simple restart is enough to get it to work again (the children are killed, but the parent process is kept alive). the only messages I find in the log are about «deadlock situations» (see below), however, they happen quite a long time before the last working request is logged. In the exemple below, the last log before restart is at 14/Apr/2008:19:59:50 +0200. Nothing else there. I only found the following post which might relate to it, except in my case, Apache is built with the worker MPM, not prefork: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg39632.html Any idea? I'd like to keep the worker MPM if possible, AFAICT, it's more lightweight and more adequate to our use. TIA, Laurent [Fri Apr 11 18:53:07 2008] [emerg] (45)Deadlock situation detected/avoided: apr_proc_mutex_lock failed. Attempting to shutdown process gracefully. [Fri Apr 11 19:04:58 2008] [emerg] (45)Deadlock situation detected/avoided: apr_proc_mutex_lock failed. Attempting to shutdown process gracefully. [Sat Apr 12 02:36:16 2008] [error] [client 195.189.142.134] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache-contenus/capri/favicon.ico, referer: http://my.address/ [Sat Apr 12 10:27:59 2008] [emerg] (45)Deadlock situation detected/avoided: apr_proc_mutex_lock failed. Attempting to shutdown process gracefully. [Mon Apr 14 14:41:46 2008] [emerg] (45)Deadlock situation detected/avoided: apr_proc_mutex_lock failed. Attempting to shutdown process gracefully. [Mon Apr 14 16:16:11 2008] [emerg] (45)Deadlock situation detected/avoided: apr_proc_mutex_lock failed. Attempting to shutdown process gracefully. [Mon Apr 14 18:42:38 2008] [emerg] (45)Deadlock situation detected/avoided: apr_proc_mutex_lock failed. Attempting to shutdown process gracefully. [Mon Apr 14 19:48:16 2008] [emerg] (45)Deadlock situation detected/avoided: apr_proc_mutex_lock failed. Attempting to shutdown process gracefully. [Tue Apr 15 08:44:15 2008] [warn] child process 9042 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM [Tue Apr 15 08:44:15 2008] [warn] child process 7176 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM [Tue Apr 15 08:44:15 2008] [warn] child process 6424 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM [Tue Apr 15 08:44:15 2008] [warn] child process 8910 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM [Tue Apr 15 08:44:17 2008] [warn] child process 7176 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM [Tue Apr 15 08:44:19 2008] [warn] child process 7176 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM [Tue Apr 15 08:44:21 2008] [error] child process 7176 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL [Tue Apr 15 08:44:22 2008] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart [Tue Apr 15 08:44:24 2008] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Tue Apr 15 08:44:24 2008] [notice] Digest: done [Tue Apr 15 08:44:25 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8f DAV/2 PHP/4.4.7 configured -- resuming normal operations -- / Leader de Projet & Communauté | I'm working, but not speaking for \ G11N http://fr.opensolaris.org | Bull Services http://www.bull.com / FOSUG http://guses.org | --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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