apache segfaulting on start

[erinspice]

I'm trying to set up a devel environment on my FC7 laptop. I installed apache using yum, but when I tried to start it, it segfaults. Can someone help me track down why this may be happening and how I can fix it?

I would start with this to see if your config file is good and post the error

/usr/sbin/apachectl configtest

and see if there is anything here

sudo cat /var/log/httpd/error_log

.

[erinspice]

[root@localhost ~]# /usr/sbin/apachectl configtest
/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 91: 11840 Segmentation fault      $HTTPD $OPTIONS -t

/usr/sbin/apachectl: line 91:

function testconfig() {
# httpd is denied terminal access in SELinux, so run in the
# current context to get stdout from $HTTPD -t.
if test -x /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled && /usr/sbin/selinuxenabled; then
  runcon -- `id -Z` $HTTPD $OPTIONS -t
else
  $HTTPD $OPTIONS -t
fi
ERROR=$?
}

Error log is empty. The $OPTIONS variable is empty.

[erinspice]

I should probably also add that SELinux is disabled.

I could not find anything like that in my httpd/conf. Was SELINUX enabled when you installed apache? Have you tried removing and then reinstalling after backing up /var/www/html and /var/www/cgi-bin. Or just try to comment out that section.

[erinspice]

That part I quoted wasn't from httpd.conf, it was from the apachectl script. SELinux has never been enabled on my machine.

The config test reads httpd.conf and checks each section. Go to the one it reports

line 91: 11840 Segmentation fault $HTTPD $OPTIONS -t

and comment it out with a # or correct the error and then try a restart.

[erinspice]

apachectl exits cleanly with those lines commented out. I believe it's still using the default httpd.conf anyway, as I haven't edited anything yet. Thanks again for your continued help. I really have to figure this out, as I have a contract starting soon and this is my primary development environment!

apachectl exits cleanly with those lines commented out.

Do you mean apache would not start even after you commented out the offending line. Maybe someone with more experience will have an idea for you. With yum, a reinstall of apache is so easy that I would also try that after backing up any important files. What is your goal as far as development environ goes? Good luck.

After reading your previous post on the same subject, I might suggest that an upgrade to Fedora 8 and disabling any conflicting repos you might have in yum.repos.d and the use of protectbase post #9 http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...tectbase+leigh in your repos might repair any problems you might have in your system allowing you to keep your data. Then you should be able to construct your LAMP setup once your system is fixed.

[erinspice]

apachectl runs just fine with that line commented, but apache still will not start. The segfault is in the /usr/sbin/httpd executable, which is called by /etc/init.d/httpd, but isn't called anywhere in apachectl. I have tried erasing with yum and reinstalling with yum several times with no results, which makes me think that this is an environmental thing -- maybe a corrupt or outdated library or something like that. Thanks for your help. I really hope someone else has some insight!

My goal is just to have a LAMP server so that I can do PHP and Perl development.