error_log fullfilled by a strange error message

[fauzzo]

Hi,

I have just discovered that my error_log file is growing very fast by rows like these:

[Thu Jun 02 01:15:19 2005] [crit] (20014)Error string not specified yet: shGetLockedEntry(87bfb58, "SERVER") failed in watchLogHash()
[Thu Jun 02 01:15:19 2005] [crit] (20014)Error string not specified yet: shGetLockedEntry(87bfb58, "mydomain.com") failed in watchPostReadRequestHash()
[Thu Jun 02 01:15:19 2005] [crit] (20014)Error string not specified yet: shGetLockedEntry(87bfb58, "SERVER") failed in watchPostReadRequestHash()
[Thu Jun 02 01:15:19 2005] [crit] (20014)Error string not specified yet: shGetLockedEntry(87bfb58, "mydomain.com") failed in watchLogHash()
[Thu Jun 02 01:15:19 2005] [crit] (20014)Error string not specified yet: shGetLockedEntry(87bfb58, "SERVER") failed in watchLogHash()

Anybody knows what could it mean?

Except for fullfilling, things seems to work without any problem :-?

Thank you for any help about it

[sitz]

this is caused by something (most likely a third-party module or even an application) calling apr_strerror() with an error code not defined in the Apache Portable Runtime (APR). In this case; it's being called with a value between 20000 and 69999 (see $APACHE_20_SOURCE/srclib/apr/misc/unix/errorcodes.c and $APACHE_20_SOURCE/srclib/apr/include/apr_errno.h for why, if you're curious).

Googling on shGetLockedEntry [google.com] turned up this tidbit:

[forums.devshed.com ]

...which may or may not help you.

[fauzzo]

Looking more in deep in the bigger log file, I found that before it starts to record such messages it says:

[Wed Jun 01 17:04:37 2005] [alert] (11)Resource temporarily unavailable:
setuid: unable to change to uid: 65534
[Wed Jun 01 17:04:37 2005] [alert] Child 10331 returned a Fatal
error...\nApache is exiting!

I have recently upgraded the server kernel, I don't know if this could be related.

Thanks

[sitz]

what user is apache being started as? what user is apache running as?

[fauzzo]

by "nobody"

I am alsgo getting thinks like this:

[Fri Jun 03 22:13:02 2005] [notice] child pid 31959 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

Thanks!