[CentOS] mod_python - apache crash

Fri Jul 4 12:22:09 UTC 2008
Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net>

>
> Specifically ... I am looking at the httpd and python and pyexpat used 
> in CentOS 4 ... I get this:
>
> =====
> [root at v20z-x86-64 ~]# python
> Python 2.3.4 (#1, Dec 11 2007, 05:28:55)
> [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import pyexpat
>
> >>> pyexpat.version_info
> (1, 95, 7)
> =====
> [root at v20z-x86-64 ~]# ldd /usr/sbin/httpd | grep expat
>         libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.0 (0x0000002a95dba000)
>
> [root at v20z-x86-64 ~]# strings /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.0 | grep expat_
> expat_1.95.7
> =====
>
> So, it does not seem that Apache or Python or pyexpat that comes 
> standard in CentOS-4 has this issue.
>


quite right -


# /usr/sbin/lsof -p 19836 | grep expat
httpd   19836 root  mem    REG      8,3  123496  2792038 
/usr/lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0

# strings /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0 | grep expat
libexpat.so.0
expat_1.95.7

# python
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Oct 11 2006, 06:18:43)
[GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import pyexpat
 >>> pyexpat.version_info
(1, 95, 7)

so i am a little confused as so why i'm seeing this now, i may kick my 
developer a bit to see if this is really what i am seeing

thanks