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[Bryan Beeley <898927@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think a Perl package may be the culprit, rather than apache2.

** Changed in: apache2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Description changed:

- 
- After connecting to an Oracle database (through Catalyst and DBIx::Class) in a Perl script run through PerlRequire or PerlPostConfigRequire, apache2 will silently die.  No error messages show up in the error.log.
+ After connecting to an Oracle database (through Catalyst and
+ DBIx::Class) in a Perl script run through PerlRequire or
+ PerlPostConfigRequire, apache2 will silently die.  No error messages
+ show up in the error.log.
  
  If Apache2::ServerUtil::restart_count() is used to only run the database
  connection in restart 2 or greater, apache2 will run as normal.
  However, if apache2 is restarted using apache2ctl restart, an error
  message like this is generated:
  
  [Fri Dec 02 00:35:09 2011] [notice] seg fault or similar nasty error
  detected in the parent process
  
  This problem was seen using DBD::Oracle 1.28 and Oracle Instant Client
  11.2.0.1.0.
  
  I was not able to produce a core dump, but I am not 100% sure that I
  know how to do this in apache2.  I tried setting enabled=1 in
  /etc/default/apport, starting apport, running 'sudo -s ulimit -c
  unlimited', and adding a CoreDumpDirectory directive to apache2.conf.
  
- I tried the same configuration on Ubuntu 11.11 and apache2
- 2.2.20-1ubuntu1.1, but did not see the crash.
+ I am seeing the same problem on Ubuntu 11.11 with apache2
+ 2.2.20-1ubuntu1.1.
  
  I am not an expert on the internals of apache2, but it looks like this
  has something to do with loading Oracle into memory and the way the
  database handle is shared between a parent and a child after a fork.
  DBIx::Class claims to do "the right thing" with database connections
  when forking, but somehow that is not enough with this new build of
  apache2.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: apache2-mpm-prefork 2.2.14-5ubuntu8.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-35.78-server 2.6.32.46+drm33.20
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-35-server x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Dec  2 01:21:58 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110211.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apache2

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  apache2-mpm-prefork+mod_perl crashes on start

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