general/7176: When executing apache, the process becomes a zombie.

[Ryan Coleman <co...@underways.net>]

>Number:         7176
>Category:       general
>Synopsis:       When executing apache, the process becomes a zombie.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Feb 01 21:30:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     colts@underways.net
>Release:        1.3.14 and 1.3.17
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
General Info:
Memory: 192mb
Processor 300Mhz PowerPC 750 (G3)

underways:~>uname -a
Linux underways.net 2.2.18 #2 Fri Jan 19 02:08:29 EST 2001 ppc unknown
underways:~>ls -al |grep "libc"
libc-2.1.3.so
libc.so.6
libcom_err.so.2
libcom_err.so.2.0
libcrypt-2.1.3.so
libcrypt.so.1

underways:~>gcc --version
2.95.2

underways:~>gcc -dumpmachine
ppc-redhat-linux

underways:~>rpm -q binutils
binutils-2.9.5.0.19-0a

>Description:
I am not getting a core dump, i am however executing apache via /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
during compilation i did --enable-module=(did all the modules) and i did --with-perl and of course
prefixed it to /usr/local/apache.

After it about 1 minute, the program becomes a zombie.  this problem started happening in 1.3.14, and continued to 
1.3.17.  It did not however occur in 1.3.12.


>How-To-Repeat:
As far as repeating this problem use LinuxPPC 2000, with the latest php4, and
compile apache how i described above, also (not that it makes a difference) 
have like 6 IP-vaed virtual hosts in the config. NOTE, No RPM's
everything is compiling from source.


>Fix:
I have no sugguestions on how to fix it, however do note there was not this problem in 1.3.12.
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