[CentOS] httpd crashes after signal HUP

Sun Apr 19 13:07:45 UTC 2009
RedShift <redshift at pandora.be>

RedShift wrote:
> Hello
> 
> 
> I'm running CentOS 5.3 with httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.x86_64 and php-5.1.6-23.2.el5_3.x86_64. When the logrotate scripts run and send the HUP signal to httpd, the httpd process quits instead of reloading. The only thing I can find in the logs is this:
> 
> [Sun Apr 19 04:02:04 2009] [notice] seg fault or similar nasty error detected in the parent process
> 
> There wasn't any segfault reported in dmesg and I couldn't find anything else in the other logs (messages, etc...)
> 
> It's reproducable every time, when I send the HUP signal to the master httpd process the same thing happens.
> 
> My configuration is nothing special, just the stock one, with a few unnecesary modules commented out and one virtual host.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Glenn
> 
> 

I figured out it was coming from a PHP extension called MAPI, that comes shipped with a piece of software I use (Zarafa). This problem didn't occur on my laptop because it didn't have the mapi.so extension loaded. So this is not a CentOS problem.

For reference: http://forums.zarafa.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2225


Best regards,


Glenn