Re: I think AuthCookie(DBI) is causing segfaults?

Maybe Apache MPM prefork?  How can I tell?  Neither of 
/mods-available|enabled contain any mpm_* mods so perhaps no MPM?

Sorry for my weak knowledge here :(

Tosh


On 11/11/10 12:30 AM, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> Which MPM are you using?
>
> - Perrin
>
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Tosh Cooey<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> I have a standard mod_perl setup, application is a server and mysql is
>> another.
>>
>> I use AuthCookieDBI
>> http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MATISSE/Apache2-AuthCookieDBI-2.05/lib/Apache2/AuthCookieDBI.pm
>> for authentication against the DB.
>>
>> If the application has not been used for a while, a few hours, then when a
>> user tries to connect Apache segfaults.  Here is debug output:
>>
>> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] auth_type DISKO::AUTH
>> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] r=Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x81f6f290)
>> authtype=DISKO::AUTH
>> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] auth_name berlin3
>> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] ses_key_cookie<cookiestuff>
>> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] uri /clientID/index.pl
>> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] user authenticated as tosh
>> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] authorize() for /clientID/index.pl
>> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] authorize user=tosh type=DISKO::AUTH
>> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] requirement := valid-user,
>> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [notice] child pid 17510 exit signal Segmentation
>> fault (11)
>>
>> DISKO::AUTH is where I override:
>> *Apache2::AuthCookieDBI::_dbi_connect = sub {
>> the connect() sub so I can do some on-the-fly modification of DSN names.
>>
>> DBI->connect_cached is used if that is of importance.
>>
>> My understanding of DBI is that things like ping() and reconnecting are all
>> taken care of automagically, so I'm a bit baffled by this, especially as I
>> have never had this happen on somewhat similar application setups.
>>
>> Is there something wrong with Apache2::AuthCookieDBI::_dbi_connect ?
>>
>> Or should I just cron a task to ping the application every hour?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Tosh
>>
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>>
>

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