Hi all,system: Windows Vista Business, latest SP's, Apache HTTPd 2.2.11, MSI installation.
I've had a long-running well-working Apache, no problems, changed some configs today and restarted Apache and all was fine and dandy. Then I installed a new video driver today and after restart, Apache didn't start at all anymore with the following message in error.log:
[notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) configured -- resuming normal operations [notice] Server built: Dec 10 2008 00:10:06 [crit] (22)Invalid argument: Parent: Failed to create the child process.[crit] (OS 6)The handle is invalid. : master_main: create child process failed. Exiting.
[notice] Parent: Forcing termination of child process 36I tried the following things already and spent the better part of today trying to resolve this, to no avail:
- restarted, re-installed and minimized the configuration to the bare essentials (no php, perl etc)
- rollback to last restore point, so driver issues should be gone - disabled (exited!) any firewall, virus scanner, windows protection- tried several ways of reinstallation, each time completely removing old installation. Previously, a basic install worked on my system
- google didn't give me new ideas - cleared arp, flushed dns, tried other ports then port 80 - checked configuration with httpd -t . - ran httpd with -e debug (output from error.log below).- used SysInternals tools to check for any access denies or other weird things, but nothing of a sort
I'm running out of ideas. I don't know what "Invalid argument" means here. Though I am a programmer, I have not yet tried to install the source or tried to debug, it seemed to daunting.
Any help, hints, pointers would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, -- Abel --PS: this question was also asked at experts-exchange, but got little response:
The full log from httpd -k start -l debug: Starting the Apache2.2 service The Apache2.2 service is running. mod_so.c(246): loaded module actions_module [Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module alias_module [Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module asis_module[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module auth_basic_module [Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module authn_default_module [Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module authn_file_module [Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module authz_default_module [Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module authz_groupfile_module [Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module authz_host_module [Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module authz_user_module [Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module autoindex_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module cgi_module [Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module dir_module [Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module env_module[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module include_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module isapi_module[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module log_config_module
[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module mime_module[Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module negotiation_module [Fri May 15 19:56:42 2009] [debug] mod_so.c(246): loaded module setenvif_module [Fri May 15 19:56:43 2009] [notice] Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri May 15 19:56:43 2009] [notice] Server built: Dec 10 2008 00:10:06[Fri May 15 19:56:43 2009] [crit] (22)Invalid argument: Parent: Failed to create the child process. [Fri May 15 19:56:43 2009] [crit] (OS 6)The handle is invalid. : master_main: create child process failed. Exiting. [Fri May 15 19:56:43 2009] [notice] Parent: Forcing termination of child process 36
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