Abel Braaksma wrote: > 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: > > [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 36 > > 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. You shouldn't need to, we hope. Note this code is in http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/server/mpm/winnt/mpm_winnt.c and the only arguments that can be corrupted are the cmd we build for the child, the args to the cmd, the environment, and process attributes (program type, standard input/output handles etc). So your driver busted something; the question is, what? Since we didn't create it, you can presume we have no interest in debugging it :) But here's just a smattering of things that might help; Lingering, corrupted system environment variables? Permissions of the system account? (Try changing the service to 'Logon As' another user who you create and set up with Write permissions to the logs/ directory.) Corrupted msvcrt.dll? Corrupted service? Might have to uninstall the service, reboot, then manually delete this key; HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\[service name] and reinstall the service. > PS: this question was also asked at experts-exchange, but got little > response: So much for 'expertise' ;-) Glad you found a more informed place to ask. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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