Apache & glibc problem on fc5
September 1, 2008 - Gyuri van de BiltJust sharing a small time consuming issue we experienced today with Apache & glibc on an (old…) Fedora 5 server….
The problem…
After installing an application and rebooting, the Apache server was dead (we also had problems with a local sendmail installation):
- Apache (httpd) didn’t give any error messages whatsoever, it just died (with errorlevel 0).
- Webmin message when starting Apache: “Failed to start apache : Apache does not appear to be running”.
- After starting httpd status was “httpd dead but subsys locked”.
The problem was caused by an updated glibc!
How it was solved
- The updated packages were found in /var/log/yum.log. Since we daily backup a list of the packages and versions installed, we could check which version was installed before the update. In our case:
- glibc-2.4-11.i686.rpm
- glibc-2.4-11.x86_64.rpm
- glibc-common-2.4-11.x86_64.rpm
- glibc-devel-2.4-11.x86_64.rpm
- glibc-headers-2.4-11.x86_64.rpm
- Downloaded the RPM’s from http://rpm.pbone.net/.
- Installed RPM’s:
- rpm -Uvh –oldpackage glibc-2.4-11.x86_64.rpm glibc-2.4-11.i686.rpm glibc-common-2.4-11.x86_64.rpm glibc-devel-2.4-11.x86_64.rpm glibc-headers-2.4-11.x86_64.rpm
- Rebooted
Problem fixed for now.
Migrating this server to a decent OS is still pending 
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