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Posted to test-dev@httpd.apache.org by Sander Temme <sc...@covalent.net> on 2002/01/17 00:53:26 UTC

What makes the server die with 255?

Hi all, 

Built and ran HEAD on Darwin 5.2, and ran the httpd-test perl-framework.
This dies with the following protest:

server has died with status 255 (please examine t/logs/error_log)
Terminated

The log says:

[batmobile:perl-framework] sctemme$cat t/logs/error_log
[Wed Jan 16 15:44:04 2002] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest
authentication ...
[Wed Jan 16 15:44:04 2002] [notice] Digest: done
[Wed Jan 16 15:44:04 2002] [notice] Apache/2.0.31-dev (Unix) DAV/2
configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Jan 16 15:44:04 2002] [info] Server built: Jan 16 2002 15:21:51
[Wed Jan 16 15:44:05 2002] [error] server reached MaxClients setting,
consider raising the MaxClients setting
[batmobile:perl-framework] sctemme$

Now, what could make this server barf this way. Started by itself, with
default config, it runs and serves pages. Could be something in the test
framework code, of course. If I set StartServers and MaxClients to one in
the regular config, it (of course) yells about hitting the limit, but keeps
on truckin'. I've seen this for the last couple of weeks, but this is the
first moment that I have to look at it. Don't know when exactly it started.

Anyone else seen this behaviour?

S.

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Re: What makes the server die with 255?

Posted by Doug MacEachern <do...@covalent.net>.
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Sander Temme wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> Built and ran HEAD on Darwin 5.2, and ran the httpd-test perl-framework.
> This dies with the following protest:
> 
> server has died with status 255 (please examine t/logs/error_log)
> Terminated
> 
> The log says:
> 
> [batmobile:perl-framework] sctemme$cat t/logs/error_log
> [Wed Jan 16 15:44:04 2002] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest
> authentication ...
> [Wed Jan 16 15:44:04 2002] [notice] Digest: done

sounds like mod_auth_digest is broken.  trying building httpd with
--disable-auth_digest and see if things are happier.




Re: What makes the server die with 255?

Posted by Sander Temme <sc...@covalent.net>.
Here, let me commit the faux pas of answering myself:

> server has died with status 255 (please examine t/logs/error_log)
> Terminated

Infuriatingly, the server runs and does answer requests.

And, 

% t/TEST -run-tests

Works fine (aside from failing a few tests). As long as it doesn't need to
start the server, the test harness seems fine. Where shall I start looking?

S.

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Re: What makes the server die with 255?

Posted by Dirk-Willem van Gulik <di...@covalent.net>.

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Sander Temme wrote:

> server has died with status 255 (please examine t/logs/error_log)
> Terminated

Might be an exit(-1) you are looking for - rather than an exit(255).

Dw