httpd coredumps on restart

[Henri Hennebert]

bf.mbox at gmail.com wrote:
> Configuration:
>    OS  FreeBSD 7.0
>    System:  HP Proliant DL380
>    Apache  1.3.41
>    PHP-5.2.8
> 
> I recently changed my httpd.conf file to allow NameVirtualHost as well
> as IP based Virtual hosting. Since then I am having problems starting
> up apache.  On graceful restart the apache process dumps core and the
> log message is:
> 
> kernel: pid 10114 (httpd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
> gdb on the core file is unenlightening: Program terminated with signal
> 11, Segmentation fault.

You probably update php to 5.2.8. During this upgrade, the order of php 
extensions change in the file /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini

Simply edit it and change the order of the lines. It's a known problem 
with php.

Henri
> 
> Reverting to the old httpd.conf (before changes) did not help and
> apachectl start also failed.
> 
> I found a work around which was to comment out the  LoadModule
> php5_module and AddModule mod_php5.c lines in httpd.conf and then
> start httpd.  At this point httpd runs and
> I then uncomment the above lines and do a graceful restart and httpd
> stays alive.
> 
> Any suggestions on diagnosing this problem would be appreciated.
> 
> --
> Barry Friedman
> 
> 
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