Re: SV: [mp2+Win32] Frustration over Apache 2.0/ 2.2 restart failure

[Randy Kobes <suppressed>]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Foo JH wrote:

> William, the point I was trying to make is:
>
> 1. My restart test scope merely loads modperl + libapreq. There is ZERO 
> application code loaded. In other words, all I did after installing modperl + 
> libapreq is to ONLY load them into httpd.conf:
> LoadFile c:/Perl/bin/perl58.dll
> LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so
>
> LoadFile bin/libapreq2.dll
> LoadModule apreq_module modules/mod_apreq2.so
>
> Noticed there is no other code loaded. No database used. Super duper minimal 
> test model.

I can confirm the above happens, and without libapreq2.
My platform is
  Apache/2.2.4 (Win32)
  mod_perl/2.0.4-dev
  Perl/v5.8.8
  Win XP
Just loading mod_perl through
  LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so
without any other perl modules loading results, upon a
restart,

  [Mon Aug 13 06:26:27 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) 
mod_perl/2.0.4-dev Perl/v5.8.8 configured -- resuming normal 
operations
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:27 2007] [notice] Server built: Jan  9 
2007 23:17:20
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:27 2007] [notice] Parent: Created child 
process 1888
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:27 2007] [notice] Child 1888: Child 
process is running
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:27 2007] [notice] Child 1888: Acquired the 
start mutex.
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:27 2007] [notice] Child 1888: Starting 250 
worker threads.
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:27 2007] [notice] Child 1888: Starting 
thread to listen on port 80.
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:42 2007] [notice] Parent: Received restart 
signal -- Restarting the server.
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:42 2007] [notice] Child 1888: Exit event 
signaled. Child process is ending.
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:42 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) 
mod_perl/2.0.4-dev Perl/v5.8.8 configured -- resuming normal 
operations
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:42 2007] [notice] Server built: Jan  9 
2007 23:17:20
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:42 2007] [crit] (70008)Partial results are 
valid but processing is incomplete: Parent: Failed to create 
the child process.
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:42 2007] [crit] (OS 6)The handle is 
invalid.  : master_main: create child process failed. 
Exiting.
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:43 2007] [notice] Child 1888: Released the 
start mutex
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:44 2007] [notice] Child 1888: Waiting for 
250 worker threads to exit.
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:44 2007] [notice] Child 1888: All worker 
threads have exited.
[Mon Aug 13 06:26:44 2007] [notice] Child 1888: Child 
process is exiting
[Mon Aug 13 06:27:12 2007] [notice] Parent: Forcing 
termination of child process 36

A stop/start works fine, as does a restart without
loading mod_perl. As Foo noted in a later message,
the win32 binaries from
  http://www.apachelounge.com/download/
don't seem to suffer this problem. However, this is built
with VC++ 2005 (VC 8), and as such, there may be problems
running it with ActivePerl and/or perl modules compiled
for ActivePerl (eg, installed through ppm), which
use VC++ 6 to build.

--
best regards,
Randy Kobes