Bug 78360 - httpd won't start after kernel errata upgrade
Summary: httpd won't start after kernel errata upgrade
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 74543
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: apache
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-11-21 18:22 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:50:11 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2002-11-21 18:22:46 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.0.0; Linux)

Description of problem:
After upgrading our kickstart RPMs to include the new kernel errata rpm (kernel-2.4.18-17.7.x), we are seeing the following error when restarting httpd on boxes kicked with this config:
[Wed Nov 20 16:37:19 2002] [error] mod_ssl: Cannot allocate shared memory: mm:core: failed to acquire semaphore (No space left on device)

Perhaps this is related to bug 78019.  Seems similar but not exactly.  It appears that some process is leaking sempahores.

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How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Kick system with kernel-2.4.18-17.7.x, apache, apache-1.3.22-7, mod_ssl-2.8.5-6, php-4.1.2-7.2.6, postgresql-7.2.1-5
2. Use sqlrelay (from firstworks.com) to broker php's database requests
3. Allow httpd server to run for a while and service many PHP database releated requests (suggest using siege or something similar to inflate the number of requests quickly)
4. Restart apache via apachectl restart
 

Actual Results:  The system appears to be out of sempahores for some reason and yields the following error in the apache error_log:

[Wed Nov 20 16:37:19 2002] [error] mod_ssl: Cannot allocate shared memory: mm:core: failed to acquire semaphore (No space left on device)


Expected Results:  Apache gracefully restarts.

Additional info:

If I can find a way to 100% reproduce the problem I will update the bug later this week or next.  Thanks for any light shed on the problem.

Comment 1 Joe Orton 2003-04-03 15:36:18 UTC
This was probably the mm bug, and should have been fixed by:

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2002-273.html


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74543 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:50:11 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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