[Mageia-dev] Apache doesn't always like restarting....

AL13N alien at rmail.be
Wed Mar 27 15:09:09 CET 2013


> Hiya,
>
> Not sure if others ever get this but sometimes my apache really doesn't
> like being restarted.
>
> Looking at things when it's in this stuck state it appears to be waiting
> on a mutex:
>
> Process 24205 attached
> futex(0x7fde0090c640, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL <unfinished ...>
>
> Eventually systemd gets tired waiting and kills it properly
> +++ killed by SIGKILL +++
>
> which is nice from a  cleanliness perspective - I'm pretty sure that
> before either sysvinit would have just hung or returned from the stop
> job without killing things properly and then started apache again and
> gotten then "failed to bind to port 80" type error I'm sure I remember
> seeing.
>
> Anyway, don't think this is something we can easily fix just now and
> it's quite sporadic (doesn't always happen).
>
> One of these days I'll be able to attach to it properly and get a nice
> backtrace :)

this reminds me... you should try to fix the dumping of core via systemd.

the other day i tried to get cores, but somehow unlimited meant 0 meant no
core at all

#systemd people told me that my distro's systemd isn't built with the
coredump option, which may refuse to dump cores in services.



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