From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010809 Description of problem: If one uncomments the line "NameVirtualHost *" in the original httpd.conf, Apache will start without complaining, but the httpd child processes will segfault upon accepting a connection from a client Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.perl -pi -e 's/#NameVirtualHost/NameVirtualHost/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf 2.service httpd start 3.telnet localhost 80 Actual Results: in /var/log/httpd/error_log: [Mon Sep 10 02:40:51 2001] [notice] child pid 2485 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) Expected Results: Either a refusal by apache to start up or a an error HTML page returned to the client. Additional info: httpd -t does give a warning, but not an error: [Mon Sep 10 02:50:48 2001] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts Syntax OK
Thanks for the report. This bug is no longer present in the Apache httpd 2.0 packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Core.