mod_perl causing Apache Segmentation fault

[Mauritz Hansen]

NOTE: I posted have posted this question on Stackoverflow and have not yet
received an answer.
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My mod_perl appears to cause a segmentation fault in my Apache. 'httpd -X'
simply gives 'Segmentation Fault' and my server does not start.

I am using Apache 2.2.22, mod_perl 2.0.5, CentOS 5.7 x86_64. I built
mod_perl and Apache together from source with the following command:

perl5.12.4 Makefile.PL MP_USE_STATIC=1
MP_AP_PREFIX=/usr/local/src/httpd-2.2.22
MP_AP_CONFIGURE="--with-mpm=prefork --enable-rewrite"

What I have tried so far:

Point httpd.conf to my Catalyst application. Result: Apache dies with
'Segmentation fault'.
Point httpd.conf to a simple application created with catalyst.pl.
Apache dies with 'Segmentation fault'.
Point httpd.conf to a static site. Result: Apache starts fine and
serves the website.

I tried the following:

gdb -c /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

0x2aaab0db0270 in ?? ()

(gdb) bt

#0 0x2aaab0db0270 in ?? ()

#1 0x004c9d24 in Perl_newUNOP ()

#2 0x004fb6a6 in Perl_yyparse ()

#3 0x00557c57 in S_doeval ()

#4 0x00559546 in Perl_pp_require ()

#5 0x00528bae in Perl_runops_standard ()

#6 0x004d5d2f in Perl_eval_sv ()

#7 0x00478425 in modperl_require_module ()

#8 0x00472283 in modperl_boot ()

#9 0x005529cc in Perl_leave_scope ()

#10 0x004d87eb in S_parse_body ()

#11 0x004d927c in perl_parse ()

#12 0x00471d2a in modperl_startup ()

#13 0x00471cbc in modperl_startup ()

#14 0x0047202e in modperl_init ()

#15 0x0047215f in modperl_hook_init ()

#16 0x004737bb in modperl_cmd_perldo ()

#17 0x0046432b in invoke_cmd (cmd=0x5b9880,
parms=0x7fffe770, mconfig=0x844728, args=0x89b7d8 "use lib qw(
/usr/local/apache2/virtualhosts/api.nwwi.nl /httpdocs/lib/ );\n") at
config.c:757

#18 0x00465865 in ap_walk_config_sub (current=0x89b828,
parms=0x7fffe770, section_vector=0x830c18) at config.c:1163

#19 0x00465914 in ap_walk_config (current=0x89b828,
parms=0x7fffe770, section_vector=0x830c18) at config.c:1196

#20 0x00466cb9 in ap_process_config_tree (s=0x82de10,
conftree=0x86fcb0, p=0x822138, ptemp=0x82a178) at config.c:1765

#21 0x00449512 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffe9e8) at
main.c:723

I have no idea how to read and interpret this. Can somebody help and point
me in a direction to further troubleshoot this?

Re: mod_perl causing Apache Segmentation fault

[Dave Hodgkinson]

On 17 Feb 2012, at 14:03, Mauritz Hansen wrote:

>#17 0x0046432b in invoke_cmd (cmd=0x5b9880,
> parms=0x7fffe770, mconfig=0x844728, args=0x89b7d8 "use lib qw(
> /usr/local/apache2/virtualhosts/api.nwwi.nl /httpdocs/lib/ );\n") at
> config.c:757

This appears to be what it's trying to do. Take that directive
out and see what happens?

Re: mod_perl causing Apache Segmentation fault

[Andrew Merton]

It may be nothing, but I spent 2 months (off and on) with a crashing
mod_perl/Apache to discover that in my case it was the DateTime that was
the cause.

Hans (on the list) confirmed this and said "The latest DateTime and
DateTime-TimeZone modules that work with mod_perl are DateTime 0.70 and
DateTime-TimeZone 1.34."

The root cause appears to be the Params::Classify module which loads
Classify.dll - it is Classify.dll that is the problem. SInce P::C has a
pure Perl implementation as well as the dll, I simplex moved the dll, and
everything started working consistently.  Hans reverted to the earlier
DateTime, which worked for him.

It may be totally unrelated to your problem, but I had many
varying symptoms depending on configuration etc, and some of the errors
gave no hint as to the problem being in Classify.dll.

HTH :)



> My mod_perl appears to cause a segmentation fault in my Apache. 'httpd -X'
> simply gives 'Segmentation Fault' and my server does not start.
>
> I am using Apache 2.2.22, mod_perl 2.0.5, CentOS 5.7 x86_64. I built
> mod_perl and Apache together from source with the following command:
>
>