[KLUG Members] Apache Problem on RedHat 8.0

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>I'm running Apache 2 on RH8.
>Everything works fine until I want to make a change to httpd.conf
>After the change I use "service httpd restart" or "service httpd stop" and
>"service httpd start"
>the commands execute fine but Apache crashes. If I run "service httpd status"
>t returns "The service is dead but the subsystem is locked"
>I have to actually reboot the server to get Apache back up. This is rather
>inconvenient. Has anyone else seen this?
>This is the error I have in error_log:
>[Wed Feb 05 09:07:19 2003] [crit] (17)File exists: unable to create
>scoreboard (name-based shared memory failure)

Fascinating.  Are there derelict System V IPC resources?  If so what happens if
you nuke the ones owned by apache and try starting?

Hint: man ipcs & man ipcrm