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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Scott Haneda <ta...@newgeo.com> on 2009/10/09 07:53:11 UTC
[users@httpd] Apache 2 initgroups alert, Max OS X, abnormal exit in error log
$httpd -v
Server version: Apache/2.2.13 (Unix)
Today, I have seen in my logs...
$grep '\[alert\]' error_log
[Thu Oct 08 16:23:24 2009] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:
unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
[Thu Oct 08 16:23:24 2009] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:
unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
[Thu Oct 08 16:23:24 2009] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:
unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
[Thu Oct 08 16:23:24 2009] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:
unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
[Thu Oct 08 16:23:24 2009] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:
unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
[Thu Oct 08 16:23:25 2009] [alert] Child 13545 returned a Fatal
error... Apache is exiting!
[Thu Oct 08 17:29:48 2009] [alert] (36)Operation now in progress:
initgroups: unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
[Thu Oct 08 17:29:49 2009] [alert] Child 13782 returned a Fatal
error... Apache is exiting!
There is a little info on this, one which is in this list, but dates
back a year:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-users/200810.mbox/%3C5249c07e0810091021s77d4f603y50c3fbb20cd4c181@mail.gmail.com%3E
There was no solution to that thread I could find.
Looking through a few changelogs, I see mention of initgroups, but I
am not versed in this enough to now if this was addressed, attempted
to be addressed, or was assumed to have been solved. I am not using
any LDAP as some googling will point to.
The only correlation I have, is I was playing with rotatelogs for the
first time today. I removed the single pipe line for the error log
and issues apachectl graceful. That graceful was issued at Oct 8
16:23, but you can see, I had an exit afterward as well.
The pipe I added was put into a virtual host container, did make a log
after a graceful start, and followed the 300 second rotation schedule
I was testing. User was root and group was www. On a side note, how
do I get rotatelogs to use www:www user and group?
My google searches on this seem to be mostly limited to Mac OS X, both
PPC and Intel, info is sparse.
More details below, but the meat of the question is above, most
probably do not need read more. I am posting here to find if anyone
knows more info, or if it would be wise to post to bugzilla.
This is a relatively new install, and was just put into production
after stable testing for a few weeks. I have not seen any other
unusual exits, but I am also staying way from rotatelogs for the time
being, though I am pretty sure that my end goals will need use of
rotatelogs.
I am running Mac OS X 10.5 on PPC
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Power Mac G5
Model Identifier: PowerMac7,2
Processor Name: PowerPC 970 (2.2)
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 2
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 3.5 GB
Bus Speed: 1 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.1.4f0
I am open to testing rotatelogs if need be to pin this down. I used
MacPorts to install, which from what I can tell about the port install
description file, these are the configure args I used:
--prefix=/opt/local/apache2
--with-apr=/opt/local/bin/apr-1-config \
--with-apr-util=/opt/local/bin/apu-1-config \
--libdir=/opt/local/lib \
--with-expat=/opt/local \
--with-pcre=/opt/local \
--mandir=/opt/local/share/man \
--enable-mods-shared=all \
--enable-ssl \
--with-ssl=/opt/local \
--enable-cache \
--enable-disk_cache \
--enable-file_cache \
--enable-mem_cache \
--enable-deflate \
--enable-proxy \
--enable-proxy-connect \
--enable-proxy-http \
--enable-proxy-ftp
I can not locate the OP's email address to follow up with him and see
if he has resolution to this. Unfortunately, I only have an error log
from today forward, and nuked the last two weeks of it as a clean
start when I went live.
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Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *
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Re: [users@httpd] Apache 2 initgroups alert, Max OS X, abnormal
exit in error log
Posted by Ignacio de Córdoba <ic...@skios.es>.
Hello.
I am having the same problem as you. It happens only after last upgrade to
httpd (I use macports). It was working without any problems but now I get
this initgroups warning followed by a Fatal error. And Apache exists.
I use httpd 2.2.14 with mod_ssl and mod_jk (linked to jBoss)
I know I can't help you with the solllution but maybe there is some test I
can do... or maybe you alreado found the sollution :-)
Ignacio
Lists wrote:
>
> I am bumping this one, since it saw no action at all. Should I just
> file a bug report? The only things that have changed since my OP, is
> I have found more references to this in google, dating back many year,
> and found the section on the source code that returns the error. I
> do not see how to solve it though, regardless of the condition that is
> getting hit to return the error.
>
> I reached out to every poster in the archives I found, they are all
> too old, and I suspect those people do not monitor those email
> addresses.
>
> This has plagued Apache even in the 1.x series, and has made its way
> to the 2.x series, though it is in such limited form, most never hit
> it. I do believe it is limited to the BSD's, or at least, only
> systems that may have something wrong with initgroups().
>
> I am happy to file a bug report, but want to make 100% sure I am not
> making a config problem on my end into a bug.
>
> Thank you.
> --
> Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *
>
> On Oct 8, 2009, at 10:53 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
>
>> $httpd -v
>> Server version: Apache/2.2.13 (Unix)
>>
>> Today, I have seen in my logs...
>> $grep '\[alert\]' error_log
>> [Thu Oct 08 16:23:24 2009] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:
>> unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
>> [Thu Oct 08 16:23:24 2009] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:
>> unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
>> [Thu Oct 08 16:23:24 2009] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:
>> unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
>> [Thu Oct 08 16:23:24 2009] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:
>> unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
>> [Thu Oct 08 16:23:24 2009] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:
>> unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
>> [Thu Oct 08 16:23:25 2009] [alert] Child 13545 returned a Fatal
>> error... Apache is exiting!
>> [Thu Oct 08 17:29:48 2009] [alert] (36)Operation now in progress:
>> initgroups: unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
>> [Thu Oct 08 17:29:49 2009] [alert] Child 13782 returned a Fatal
>> error... Apache is exiting!
>>
>> There is a little info on this, one which is in this list, but dates
>> back a year:
>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-users/200810.mbox/%3C5249c07e0810091021s77d4f603y50c3fbb20cd4c181@mail.gmail.com%3E
>>
>> There was no solution to that thread I could find.
>>
>> Looking through a few changelogs, I see mention of initgroups, but I
>> am not versed in this enough to now if this was addressed, attempted
>> to be addressed, or was assumed to have been solved. I am not using
>> any LDAP as some googling will point to.
>>
>> The only correlation I have, is I was playing with rotatelogs for
>> the first time today. I removed the single pipe line for the error
>> log and issues apachectl graceful. That graceful was issued at Oct
>> 8 16:23, but you can see, I had an exit afterward as well.
>>
>> The pipe I added was put into a virtual host container, did make a
>> log after a graceful start, and followed the 300 second rotation
>> schedule I was testing. User was root and group was www. On a side
>> note, how do I get rotatelogs to use www:www user and group?
>>
>> My google searches on this seem to be mostly limited to Mac OS X,
>> both PPC and Intel, info is sparse.
>>
>> More details below, but the meat of the question is above, most
>> probably do not need read more. I am posting here to find if anyone
>> knows more info, or if it would be wise to post to bugzilla.
>>
>> This is a relatively new install, and was just put into production
>> after stable testing for a few weeks. I have not seen any other
>> unusual exits, but I am also staying way from rotatelogs for the
>> time being, though I am pretty sure that my end goals will need use
>> of rotatelogs.
>>
>> I am running Mac OS X 10.5 on PPC
>> Hardware Overview:
>>
>> Model Name: Power Mac G5
>> Model Identifier: PowerMac7,2
>> Processor Name: PowerPC 970 (2.2)
>> Processor Speed: 2 GHz
>> Number Of CPUs: 2
>> L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
>> Memory: 3.5 GB
>> Bus Speed: 1 GHz
>> Boot ROM Version: 5.1.4f0
>>
>> I am open to testing rotatelogs if need be to pin this down. I used
>> MacPorts to install, which from what I can tell about the port
>> install description file, these are the configure args I used:
>>
>> --prefix=/opt/local/apache2
>> --with-apr=/opt/local/bin/apr-1-config \
>> --with-apr-util=/opt/local/bin/apu-1-config \
>> --libdir=/opt/local/lib \
>> --with-expat=/opt/local \
>> --with-pcre=/opt/local \
>> --mandir=/opt/local/share/man \
>> --enable-mods-shared=all \
>> --enable-ssl \
>> --with-ssl=/opt/local \
>> --enable-cache \
>> --enable-disk_cache \
>> --enable-file_cache \
>> --enable-mem_cache \
>> --enable-deflate \
>> --enable-proxy \
>> --enable-proxy-connect \
>> --enable-proxy-http \
>> --enable-proxy-ftp
>>
>> I can not locate the OP's email address to follow up with him and
>> see if he has resolution to this. Unfortunately, I only have an
>> error log from today forward, and nuked the last two weeks of it as
>> a clean start when I went live.
>
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Re: [users@httpd] Apache 2 initgroups alert, Max OS X, abnormal exit in error log
Posted by Scott Haneda <ta...@newgeo.com>.
I am bumping this one, since it saw no action at all. Should I just
file a bug report? The only things that have changed since my OP, is
I have found more references to this in google, dating back many year,
and found the section on the source code that returns the error. I
do not see how to solve it though, regardless of the condition that is
getting hit to return the error.
I reached out to every poster in the archives I found, they are all
too old, and I suspect those people do not monitor those email
addresses.
This has plagued Apache even in the 1.x series, and has made its way
to the 2.x series, though it is in such limited form, most never hit
it. I do believe it is limited to the BSD's, or at least, only
systems that may have something wrong with initgroups().
I am happy to file a bug report, but want to make 100% sure I am not
making a config problem on my end into a bug.
Thank you.
--
Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *
On Oct 8, 2009, at 10:53 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
> $httpd -v
> Server version: Apache/2.2.13 (Unix)
>
> Today, I have seen in my logs...
> $grep '\[alert\]' error_log
> [Thu Oct 08 16:23:24 2009] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:
> unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
> [Thu Oct 08 16:23:24 2009] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:
> unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
> [Thu Oct 08 16:23:24 2009] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:
> unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
> [Thu Oct 08 16:23:24 2009] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:
> unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
> [Thu Oct 08 16:23:24 2009] [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:
> unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
> [Thu Oct 08 16:23:25 2009] [alert] Child 13545 returned a Fatal
> error... Apache is exiting!
> [Thu Oct 08 17:29:48 2009] [alert] (36)Operation now in progress:
> initgroups: unable to set groups for User www and Group 70
> [Thu Oct 08 17:29:49 2009] [alert] Child 13782 returned a Fatal
> error... Apache is exiting!
>
> There is a little info on this, one which is in this list, but dates
> back a year:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-users/200810.mbox/%3C5249c07e0810091021s77d4f603y50c3fbb20cd4c181@mail.gmail.com%3E
>
> There was no solution to that thread I could find.
>
> Looking through a few changelogs, I see mention of initgroups, but I
> am not versed in this enough to now if this was addressed, attempted
> to be addressed, or was assumed to have been solved. I am not using
> any LDAP as some googling will point to.
>
> The only correlation I have, is I was playing with rotatelogs for
> the first time today. I removed the single pipe line for the error
> log and issues apachectl graceful. That graceful was issued at Oct
> 8 16:23, but you can see, I had an exit afterward as well.
>
> The pipe I added was put into a virtual host container, did make a
> log after a graceful start, and followed the 300 second rotation
> schedule I was testing. User was root and group was www. On a side
> note, how do I get rotatelogs to use www:www user and group?
>
> My google searches on this seem to be mostly limited to Mac OS X,
> both PPC and Intel, info is sparse.
>
> More details below, but the meat of the question is above, most
> probably do not need read more. I am posting here to find if anyone
> knows more info, or if it would be wise to post to bugzilla.
>
> This is a relatively new install, and was just put into production
> after stable testing for a few weeks. I have not seen any other
> unusual exits, but I am also staying way from rotatelogs for the
> time being, though I am pretty sure that my end goals will need use
> of rotatelogs.
>
> I am running Mac OS X 10.5 on PPC
> Hardware Overview:
>
> Model Name: Power Mac G5
> Model Identifier: PowerMac7,2
> Processor Name: PowerPC 970 (2.2)
> Processor Speed: 2 GHz
> Number Of CPUs: 2
> L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
> Memory: 3.5 GB
> Bus Speed: 1 GHz
> Boot ROM Version: 5.1.4f0
>
> I am open to testing rotatelogs if need be to pin this down. I used
> MacPorts to install, which from what I can tell about the port
> install description file, these are the configure args I used:
>
> --prefix=/opt/local/apache2
> --with-apr=/opt/local/bin/apr-1-config \
> --with-apr-util=/opt/local/bin/apu-1-config \
> --libdir=/opt/local/lib \
> --with-expat=/opt/local \
> --with-pcre=/opt/local \
> --mandir=/opt/local/share/man \
> --enable-mods-shared=all \
> --enable-ssl \
> --with-ssl=/opt/local \
> --enable-cache \
> --enable-disk_cache \
> --enable-file_cache \
> --enable-mem_cache \
> --enable-deflate \
> --enable-proxy \
> --enable-proxy-connect \
> --enable-proxy-http \
> --enable-proxy-ftp
>
> I can not locate the OP's email address to follow up with him and
> see if he has resolution to this. Unfortunately, I only have an
> error log from today forward, and nuked the last two weeks of it as
> a clean start when I went live.
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