From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/73 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/73 Description of problem: After doing a graceful restart '/etc/init.d/apache graceful', apache sometimes fails. It is sufficiently consistent so that we can no longer use the graceful restart. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): apache-1.3.27-2 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. /etc/init.d/apache graceful 2. (wait, perhaps accessing the server) Actual Results: Apache exited with the error code reported below. Expected Results: Apache should gracefully restart and continue running. Additional info: The following appears in the error_log: [Sun May 4 23:37:44 2003] [alert] Child 16982 returned a Fatal error... Apache is exiting! on restart it reports: [Mon May 5 13:40:44 2003] [warn] pid file /var/run/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? Notes on our configuration: - we have two ssl certificates, one has a passphrase. (on different IP addresses) - we have numerous virtual hosts, which are included in the primary configuration via "Include", almost all are on one of the ip addresses. - this has been happening for a while, but I'm not sure quite when, because I didn't realize what it was for a while, there is a time lag between the graceful restart and the failure of apache.
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