Re: intermittent segfaults, ssl?

Despite what I said, this seems to be CPAN bug 37027 or, in my case, 
Debian bug #520406 involving module DBD-mysql.

Mark

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:24:17PM -0600, Mark Copper wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a server like this:
>   Server Version: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
>           mod_apreq2-20051231/2.6.0 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0
> I'm also using HTML::Mason
> 
> I've been getting intermittent segfaults like this:
>   child pid 10142 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
> ever since in installed Apache2 in March.
> 
> I am going to try to debug this, but I thought I would ask if anyone
> might have a suggestion based on this behavior:
>   - no segfaults occur with 8 hours of an apache restart; the first fault
>     can be 8 to 48 hours after restart, the 2nd may occur within seconds;
>     there have never been more than 5 in a day.
> 
>   - I have observed these faults *only* for port 443 (ssl) requests.
> 
>   - The simplest case has been when a plain HTML page was served through
>     mod_perl and mason; e.g. no database call.
> 
> I know probably shouldn't be imposing on list-readers time without doing
> more work, but I just wonder is it isn't something really elementary 
> that I'm missing.
> 
> Mark