SqueakPeople outage

Posted 28 Oct 2007 by cdegroot (Master)

SqP was down for a while - first and foremost, my apologies.

About the actual cause? Well, I still don't know *exactly*. SqP is running on an apache 1.3 server instance behind my machines default apache 2.0 server instance. I had updated Debian and of course forgot to check SqP. Some people nagged be but we were a tad busy at work so I only got around digging into it yesterday.

mod_virgule (which runs this site) segfaulted, and some initial debugging turned up that it segfaulted inside a simple Apache pool memory allocation call. Before going into heavy debugging, I thought it wouldn't harm to rebuild the apache binaries - they're from February so who knows some update messed things up. This didn't bring the expected success, but somehow it got me to look at the warnings that Apache spit out when starting up: 

# apachectl configtest
PHP Warning:  mime_magic: type search/400       \\input         text/x-tex invalid in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  mime_magic: type search/400       \\section       text/x-tex invalid in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  mime_magic: type search/400       \\setlength     text/x-tex invalid in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  mime_magic: type search/400       \\documentstyle text/x-tex invalid in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  mime_magic: type search/400       \\chapter       text/x-tex invalid in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  mime_magic: type search/400       \\documentclass text/x-tex invalid in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning:  mime_magic: type regex            [Cc]onstant[[:space:]]+[Ss]torytext/x-inform invalid in Unknown on line 0
Syntax OK
WTF is PHP doing in my SqueakPeople-only apache instance??

So, I disabled the PHP module and SqP ran again. Apologies, again, for being so slow to respond. It happened at the worst possible time because of work-related stress (also partially caused by PHP, sigh. Please do me one favor and promise never to use that language, ok?), but I still should have been able to respond quicker.

Anyway, 't works again and for those who were worried that I might have just dropped the site: no, I haven't and I won't as long as I'm still running this dedicated server :)

Thanks!, posted 10 Nov 2007 by KenCausey (Journeyer)

I really appreciate you taking the time on this. Despite some research I myself could not figure out a way to properly debug this without causing possible disruption to other services.

Much appreciated!

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