Dear all. I am trying to install apache http server version 2.2.11 for centos 5. During the first step, i hit the error of "Error: decision on anonymous shared memory allocation method failed" and not able to proceed further. I would like to seek the help and really appreciate if anyone could give some pointers to the problem. The details is as followed. 1. Run the command [root@localhost httpd-2.2.11]# ./configure --prefix=/home1/apache --enable-so --with-included-apr > a.out Error on the console is /root/setups/apache_2.2.11/linux/httpd-2.2.11/srclib/apr/configure:Error: decision on anonymous shared memory allocation method failed 2. The output a.out content is checking for chosen layout... Apache checking for working mkdir -p... yes checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 Configuring Apache Portable Runtime library ... configuring package in srclib/apr now checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 Configuring APR library Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 checking for working mkdir -p... yes APR Version: 1.3.3 checking for chosen layout... apr checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed Applying APR hints file rules for i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 setting CPPFLAGS to "-DLINUX=2" adding "-D_REENTRANT" to CPPFLAGS adding "-D_GNU_SOURCE" to CPPFLAGS (Default will be unix) checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for gawk... gawk checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for rm... rm checking for as... as checking for cpp... cpp checking for ar... ar checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... no checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... no checking for strings.h... no checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking minix/config.h usability... no checking minix/config.h presence... no checking for minix/config.h... no checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes checking for library containing strerror... none required checking whether system uses EBCDIC... no performing libtool configuration... checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all checking dlfcn.h usability... no checking dlfcn.h presence... no checking for dlfcn.h... no checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for g77... no checking for xlf... no checking for f77... no checking for frt... no checking for pgf77... no checking for cf77... no checking for fort77... no checking for fl32... no checking for af77... no checking for xlf90... no checking for f90... no checking for pgf90... no checking for pghpf... no checking for epcf90... no checking for gfortran... no checking for g95... no checking for xlf95... no checking for f95... no checking for fort... no checking for ifort... no checking for ifc... no checking for efc... no checking for pgf95... no checking for lf95... no checking for ftn... no checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no checking whether accepts -g... no checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 98304 checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for objdir... .libs checking for ar... (cached) ar checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib checking for strip... strip checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes configure: creating libtool appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if g++ static flag -static works... yes checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so (cached) (cached) checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool /root/setups/apache_2.2.11/linux/httpd-2.2.11/srclib/apr/configure:Error: decision on anonymous shared memory allocation method failed Check for compiler flags... checking whether the compiler provides atomic builtins... no checking whether to enable -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE... no Checking for libraries... checking for library containing gethostbyname... none required checking for library containing gethostname... none required checking for library containing socket... none required checking for library containing crypt... -lcrypt checking for main in -ltruerand... no checking for library containing modf... none required Checking for Threads... checking pthread.h usability... no checking pthread.h presence... no checking for pthread.h... no APR will be non-threaded checking for sigsuspend... yes checking for sigwait... yes checking for poll... yes checking for kqueue... no checking for port_create... no checking for epoll support... no checking for getpwnam_r... yes checking for getpwuid_r... yes checking for getgrnam_r... yes checking for getgrgid_r... yes Checking for Shared Memory Support... checking for library containing shm_open... -lrt checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes checking sys/mman.h usability... no checking sys/mman.h presence... no checking for sys/mman.h... no checking sys/ipc.h usability... no checking sys/ipc.h presence... no checking for sys/ipc.h... no checking sys/mutex.h usability... no checking sys/mutex.h presence... no checking for sys/mutex.h... no checking sys/shm.h usability... no checking sys/shm.h presence... no checking for sys/shm.h... no checking sys/file.h usability... no checking sys/file.h presence... no checking for sys/file.h... no checking kernel/OS.h usability... no checking kernel/OS.h presence... no checking for kernel/OS.h... no checking os2.h usability... no checking os2.h presence... no checking for os2.h... no checking windows.h usability... no checking windows.h presence... no checking for windows.h... no checking for mmap... yes checking for munmap... yes checking for shm_open... yes checking for shm_unlink... yes checking for shmget... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for shmdt... yes checking for shmctl... yes checking for create_area... no checking for MAP_ANON in sys/mman.h... no checking for /dev/zero... yes checking for mmap that can map /dev/zero... no configure failed for srclib/apr ================================================= 3. The content of the generated config.log is This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. It was created by configure, which was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.63. Invocation command line was $ ./configure --prefix=/home1/apache --enable-so --with-included-apr ## --------- ## ## Platform. ## ## --------- ## hostname = localhost.localdomain uname -m = i686 uname -r = 2.6.18-92.el5xen uname -s = Linux uname -v = #1 SMP Tue Jun 10 19:55:54 EDT 2008 /usr/bin/uname -p = unknown /bin/uname -X = unknown /bin/arch = i686 /usr/bin/arch -k = unknown /usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown /usr/bin/hostinfo = unknown /bin/machine = unknown /usr/bin/oslevel = unknown /bin/universe = unknown PATH: /usr/lib/jdk1.6.0_13//bin PATH: /usr/kerberos/sbin PATH: /usr/kerberos/bin PATH: /usr/local/sbin PATH: /usr/local/bin PATH: /sbin PATH: /bin PATH: /usr/sbin PATH: /usr/bin PATH: /usr/X11R6/bin PATH: /root/bin ## ----------- ## ## Core tests. ## ## ----------- ## configure:2500: checking for chosen layout configure:2502: result: Apache configure:3307: checking for working mkdir -p configure:3323: result: yes configure:3340: checking build system type configure:3358: result: i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 configure:3380: checking host system type configure:3395: result: i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 configure:3417: checking target system type configure:3432: result: i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 ## ---------------- ## ## Cache variables. ## ## ---------------- ## ac_cv_build=i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 ac_cv_env_CC_set= ac_cv_env_CC_value= ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set= ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value= ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set= ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value= ac_cv_env_CPP_set= ac_cv_env_CPP_value= ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set= ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value= ac_cv_env_LIBS_set= ac_cv_env_LIBS_value= ac_cv_env_build_alias_set= ac_cv_env_build_alias_value= ac_cv_env_host_alias_set= ac_cv_env_host_alias_value= ac_cv_env_target_alias_set= ac_cv_env_target_alias_value= ac_cv_host=i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 ac_cv_mkdir_p=yes ac_cv_target=i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 ## ----------------- ## ## Output variables. ## ## ----------------- ## APACHECTL_ULIMIT='' APR_BINDIR='' APR_CONFIG='' APR_INCLUDEDIR='' APR_VERSION='' APU_BINDIR='' 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MOD_AUTHZ_HOST_LDADD='' MOD_AUTHZ_OWNER_LDADD='' MOD_AUTHZ_USER_LDADD='' MOD_AUTH_BASIC_LDADD='' MOD_AUTH_DIGEST_LDADD='' MOD_AUTOINDEX_LDADD='' MOD_BUCKETEER_LDADD='' MOD_CACHE_LDADD='' MOD_CASE_FILTER_IN_LDADD='' MOD_CASE_FILTER_LDADD='' MOD_CERN_META_LDADD='' MOD_CGID_LDADD='' MOD_CGI_LDADD='' MOD_CHARSET_LITE_LDADD='' MOD_DAV_FS_LDADD='' MOD_DAV_LDADD='' MOD_DAV_LOCK_LDADD='' MOD_DBD_LDADD='' MOD_DEFLATE_LDADD='' MOD_DIR_LDADD='' MOD_DISK_CACHE_LDADD='' MOD_DUMPIO_LDADD='' MOD_ECHO_LDADD='' MOD_ENV_LDADD='' MOD_EXAMPLE_LDADD='' MOD_EXPIRES_LDADD='' MOD_EXT_FILTER_LDADD='' MOD_FILE_CACHE_LDADD='' MOD_FILTER_LDADD='' MOD_HEADERS_LDADD='' MOD_HTTP_LDADD='' MOD_IDENT_LDADD='' MOD_IMAGEMAP_LDADD='' MOD_INCLUDE_LDADD='' MOD_INFO_LDADD='' MOD_ISAPI_LDADD='' MOD_LDAP_LDADD='' MOD_LOGIO_LDADD='' MOD_LOG_CONFIG_LDADD='' MOD_LOG_FORENSIC_LDADD='' MOD_MEM_CACHE_LDADD='' MOD_MIME_LDADD='' MOD_MIME_MAGIC_LDADD='' MOD_NEGOTIATION_LDADD='' MOD_OPTIONAL_FN_EXPORT_LDADD='' MOD_OPTIONAL_FN_IMPORT_LDADD='' MOD_OPTIONAL_HOOK_EXPORT_LDADD='' MOD_OPTIONAL_HOOK_IMPORT_LDADD='' MOD_PROXY_AJP_LDADD='' MOD_PROXY_BALANCER_LDADD='' MOD_PROXY_CONNECT_LDADD='' MOD_PROXY_FTP_LDADD='' MOD_PROXY_HTTP_LDADD='' MOD_PROXY_LDADD='' MOD_REWRITE_LDADD='' MOD_SETENVIF_LDADD='' MOD_SO_LDADD='' MOD_SPELING_LDADD='' MOD_SSL_LDADD='' MOD_STATUS_LDADD='' MOD_SUBSTITUTE_LDADD='' MOD_SUEXEC_LDADD='' MOD_UNIQUE_ID_LDADD='' MOD_USERDIR_LDADD='' MOD_USERTRACK_LDADD='' MOD_VERSION_LDADD='' MOD_VHOST_ALIAS_LDADD='' MPM_LIB='' MPM_NAME='' MPM_SUBDIR_NAME='' NOTEST_CFLAGS='' NOTEST_CPPFLAGS='' NOTEST_CXXFLAGS='' NOTEST_LDFLAGS='' NOTEST_LIBS='' OBJEXT='' OS='' OS_DIR='' OS_SPECIFIC_VARS='' PACKAGE_BUGREPORT='' PACKAGE_NAME='' PACKAGE_STRING='' PACKAGE_TARNAME='' PACKAGE_VERSION='' PATH_SEPARATOR=':' PCRE_CONFIG='' PICFLAGS='' PILDFLAGS='' PKGCONFIG='' PORT='' POST_SHARED_CMDS='' PRE_SHARED_CMDS='' RANLIB='' RM='' RSYNC='' SHELL='/bin/sh' SHLIBPATH_VAR='' SHLTCFLAGS='' SH_LDFLAGS='' SH_LIBS='' SH_LIBTOOL='' SSLPORT='' SSL_LIBS='' UTIL_LDFLAGS='' ab_LTFLAGS='' abs_srcdir='' ac_ct_CC='' ap_make_delimiter='' ap_make_include='' bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin' build='i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1' build_alias='' build_cpu='i686' build_os='linux-gnulibc1' build_vendor='pc' cgidir='${datadir}/cgi-bin' checkgid_LTFLAGS='' datadir='${prefix}' datarootdir='${prefix}/share' docdir='${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE}' dvidir='${docdir}' errordir='${datadir}/error' exec_prefix='${prefix}' exp_bindir='/home1/apache/bin' exp_cgidir='/home1/apache/cgi-bin' exp_datadir='/home1/apache' exp_errordir='/home1/apache/error' exp_exec_prefix='/home1/apache' exp_htdocsdir='/home1/apache/htdocs' exp_iconsdir='/home1/apache/icons' exp_includedir='/home1/apache/include' exp_installbuilddir='/home1/apache/build' exp_libdir='/home1/apache/lib' exp_libexecdir='/home1/apache/modules' exp_localstatedir='/home1/apache' exp_logfiledir='/home1/apache/logs' exp_mandir='/home1/apache/man' exp_manualdir='/home1/apache/manual' exp_proxycachedir='/home1/apache/proxy' exp_runtimedir='/home1/apache/logs' exp_sbindir='/home1/apache/bin' exp_sysconfdir='/home1/apache/conf' host='i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1' host_alias='' host_cpu='i686' host_os='linux-gnulibc1' host_vendor='pc' htcacheclean_LTFLAGS='' htdbm_LTFLAGS='' htdigest_LTFLAGS='' htdocsdir='${datadir}/htdocs' htmldir='${docdir}' htpasswd_LTFLAGS='' httxt2dbm_LTFLAGS='' iconsdir='${datadir}/icons' includedir='${prefix}/include' infodir='${datarootdir}/info' installbuilddir='${datadir}/build' libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib' libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/modules' localedir='${datarootdir}/locale' localstatedir='${prefix}' logfiledir='${localstatedir}/logs' logresolve_LTFLAGS='' mandir='${prefix}/man' manualdir='${datadir}/manual' nonssl_listen_stmt_1='' nonssl_listen_stmt_2='' oldincludedir='/usr/include' other_targets='' pdfdir='${docdir}' perlbin='' prefix='/home1/apache' progname='' program_transform_name='s,x,x,' proxycachedir='${localstatedir}/proxy' psdir='${docdir}' rel_bindir='bin' rel_cgidir='cgi-bin' rel_datadir='' rel_errordir='error' rel_exec_prefix='' rel_htdocsdir='htdocs' rel_iconsdir='icons' rel_includedir='include' rel_installbuilddir='build' rel_libdir='lib' rel_libexecdir='modules' rel_localstatedir='' rel_logfiledir='logs' rel_mandir='man' rel_manualdir='manual' rel_proxycachedir='proxy' rel_runtimedir='logs' rel_sbindir='bin' rel_sysconfdir='conf' rotatelogs_LTFLAGS='' runtimedir='${localstatedir}/logs' sbindir='${exec_prefix}/bin' shared_build='' sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com' sysconfdir='${prefix}/conf' target='i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1' target_alias='' target_cpu='i686' target_os='linux-gnulibc1' target_vendor='pc' configure: exit 1 ========================== Since i am not very experienced in linux experience, detailed instruction would be great help. 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