Thanks for the quick reply, William. Some follow-ups: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
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).
maybe I should install the debugging environment after all, to see what passes through there
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;
it wasn't my driver, unfortunately. It was one that was endorsed by Microsoft (NVidia) and I did a full rollback of the system to the previous situation. The driver had some visual effects on my screen and these are all gone, including any (registry/file) changes. I'm more afraid that between my last restart (before today) and this one, some other stuff got in the way that only manifested itself after this restart...
Lingering, corrupted system environment variables?
the normal system envs look ok to me (the ones you get with SET under windows). The PATH env does not include Apache, but it didn't include it before either.
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.)
I didn't list it on my first list, but amongst the things I tried was a different Admin account, and also (re) installing the whole thing from a different account. Permissions seem ok (and from the SysInternal tools, I don't see any access violations, actually). The log dir is read/write (the error.log gets filled).
Corrupted msvcrt.dll?
Haven't checked. Will check now.
Corrupted service? Might have to uninstall the service, reboot, then manually delete this key; HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\[service name] and reinstall the service.
If you mean the Apache service: it has been removed a couple of times, but currently I run it from the command prompt to make the situation as simple as possible.
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.
haha, indeed! I'll remember that next time I'm in dire need :) Regards, -- Abel -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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