[cobalt-users] httpd not working on Raq4

["Roger Lewis" <re.lewis@xxxxxxxxx>]

My RaQ4 has been running fine since July 10 (see previous topic "RAQ4R -
Apache Patch & Web Server Not Responding"),
but at 4:00 am this morning I received the following email:

"The main web server appears to be down.  Make sure that the server's
network interface has been correctly configured in the network control
panel.  If it all looks correct, try rebooting the server; if this still
does not correct the problem, contact Sun Cobalt Technical Support."

I tried to restart httpd with the following result:

[root /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
Shutting down Web Service:
Setting up Web Service: Scalar found where operator expected at
/usr/lib/perl5/5
.00503/i386-linux/Data/Dumper.pm line 296, at end of line
        (Missing operator before ?)
Syntax error on line 425 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
Can't find 'boot_Data::Dumper' symbol in
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/auto/
Data/Dumper/Dumper.so
 at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/Apache/PerlSections.pm line 7
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/A
pache/PerlSections.pm line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf line 328.
/usr/sbin/httpd
[root /root]#

The following is from the error log:

[Tue Jul 16 04:06:33 2002] [notice] SIGHUP received.  Attempting to restart
mod_perl: RewriteRule: bad flag delimiters
[Tue Jul 16 04:06:36 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.20 Sun Cobalt (Unix)
DAV/1.0.3 mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6b PHP/4.0.6 mod_auth_pam_external/0.1
FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_perl/1.25 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Jul 16 04:06:36 2002] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper:
/usr/sbin/suexec)
[Tue Jul 16 04:15:02 2002] [notice] child pid 30958 exit signal Segmentation
fault (11)
[Tue Jul 16 04:15:04 2002] [notice] child pid 30959 exit signal Segmentation
fault (11)
[Tue Jul 16 04:15:07 2002] [warn] child process 31380 still did not exit,
sending a SIGTERM
[Tue Jul 16 04:15:11 2002] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

My co-locator, rackshack.net, says this resulted from my force install of
the Cobalt Apache patch rpms on July 10.  It doesn't seem logical to me
since everything has been working for 5 days.

Does anyone have any idea how to get this machine back up short of a
restore.

Thanks for your help.

Roger Lewis