'Unable to read from thread kernel pipe' error in Apache

[Sven Willenberger]

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 00:39 -0500, Will McCutcheon wrote:
> I have a server running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 and just started using Apache   
> 2.0.50 with PHP 4.3.7-3.  I immediately ran into a strange problem I've 
> never seen before, where when I send mail in IMP (a webmail system I run 
> on this server) the child Apache process crashes with the following 
> error:
> 
> Fatal error 'Unable to read from thread kernel pipe' at line 1100 in file
> /usr/src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_kern.c (errno = 0)
> [Wed Jul 14 22:29:41 2004] [notice] child pid 3686 exit signal Abort trap 
> (6)
> 
> Anyone have any ideas as to what's causing this?  I found that error 
> message in discussions about gnucash and xscreensaver-demo, but with no 
> answers.  I'm not sure whether the problem lies in Apache or somewhere 
> else, but because I'm experiencing it in Apache I'm reporting it here on 
> the ports list.  Thanks!
> 
> W

Did you compile apache with worker threads? Although I did have success
using MPM=worker with libkse, I found that IMP mail crashed apache
almost immediately. Turns out that a lot of PHP modules, etc are not
thread safe,

Sven