Graham, Thank you again for the help - as you might have guessed, my separate question that you answered on the mod_wsgi list was because I'd decided to try out the WSGI solution to the problem first.
What's very strange is that although I did get the same crash when I first tried running up Apache + PHP + mod_wsgi as I had with mod_python - as you would expect - it now works fine! I *think* that the change that fixed it was when I ran apt-get remove libapache2-mod-python - but I'm not quite sure why that worked. So I'm now in the uncomfortable position of having a server that works perfectly well, when I'm pretty sure that it should not. One possibility: I'm using PHP5, and although the Django page [1] just says that there can be problems with PHP, the mod_python description of the bug [2] in one place refers to PHP4 - so perhaps the problem wasn't with PHP in the first place, but was instead some kind of mod_python version incompatibility. Anyway, for now I'll leave this alone and just keep an eye on it in case things start going wrong again. In case it's of any interest, here's what I got when I checked the MySQL library versions in the current working setup: ------------------------------- # ldd /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/_mysql.so | grep mysql libmysqlclient_r.so.15 => /usr/lib/libmysqlclient_r.so.15 (0x00002b8df7860000) # ldd /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_*.so | grep mysql # ldd /usr/lib/php5/20060613/* | grep mysql /usr/lib/php5/20060613/mysqli.so: libmysqlclient.so.15 => /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.15 (0x00002b8f8bd3f000) /usr/lib/php5/20060613/mysql.so: libmysqlclient.so.15 => /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.15 (0x00002b28d2295000) /usr/lib/php5/20060613/pdo_mysql.so: libmysqlclient.so.15 => /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.15 (0x00002ba328e47000) # ------------------------------- Cheers, Giles [1] http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modpython/#if-you-get-a-segmentation-fault [2] http://modpython.org/FAQ/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq02.013.htp -- Giles Thomas MD & CTO, Resolver Systems Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0) 20 7253 6372 Try out Resolver One! <http://www.resolversystems.com/get-it/> 17a Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5RD, UK VAT No.: GB 893 5643 79 Registered in England and Wales as company number 5467329. Registered address: 843 Finchley Road, London NW11 8NA, UK --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---