My only suggestion, other than increasing certain counts, is try doing a full stop and start instead of a graceful restart.  There was a bug not too long ago that caused the 'Bad file descriptor: apr_socket_accept:' output to the log file when a graceful restart, which when occurring, caused a lot of headaches for people trying to keep Apache up. -- Ross <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:50 PM, ZuG <<a href="mailto:ozugo@yahoo.com">ozugo@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Sure, here's the apache error.log. Not very interesting. The crash, according to our network monitor script, happened about 3:30. Also, the problem probably isn't ssl because I have another server crashing that doesn't have it installed. [Tue Jul 01 15:48:36 2008] [debug] ssl_engine_kernel.c(1789): OpenSSL: Exit: error in SSLv2/v3 read client hello A [Tue Jul 01 15:48:36 2008] [info] [client <a href="http://69.89.98.133" target="_blank">69.89.98.133</a>] SSL handshake failed: HTTP spoken on HTTPS port; trying to send HTML error page [Tue Jul 01 15:48:36 2008] [info] SSL Library Error: 336027804 error:1407609C:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:http request speaking HTTP to HTTPS port!? [Tue Jul 01 23:23:59 2008] [error] [client <a href="http://60.172.219.2" target="_blank">60.172.219.2</a>] File does not exist: /var/www/sharedip/myproxies [Wed Jul 02 03:30:03 2008] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart <-- this is our network monitoring process trying to restart the server, it failed at about this time. [Wed Jul 02 03:30:03 2008] [error] (9)Bad file descriptor: apr_socket_accept: (client socket) [Wed Jul 02 03:30:03 2008] [error] (9)Bad file descriptor: apr_socket_accept: (client socket) [Wed Jul 02 03:30:03 2008] [error] (9)Bad file descriptor: apr_socket_accept: (client socket) [Wed Jul 02 03:30:03 2008] [error] (9)Bad file descriptor: apr_socket_accept: (client socket) [Wed Jul 02 03:30:03 2008] [error] (9)Bad file descriptor: apr_socket_accept: (client socket) /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/php5/extensions/ffmpeg.so: undefined symbol: av_free_static [Wed Jul 02 03:30:04 2008] [info] mod_fcgid: Process manager 10854 stopped [Wed Jul 02 09:34:48 2008] [info] Init: Seeding PRNG with 136 bytes of entropy [Wed Jul 02 09:34:48 2008] [info] Loading certificate & private key of SSL-aware server [Wed Jul 02 09:34:48 2008] [debug] ssl_engine_pphrase.c(469): unencrypted RSA private key - pass phrase not required [Wed Jul 02 09:34:48 2008] [info] Init: Generating temporary RSA private keys (512/1024 bits) [Wed Jul 02 09:34:48 2008] [info] Init: Generating temporary DH parameters (512/1024 bits) [Wed Jul 02 09:34:48 2008] [info] Init: Initializing (virtual) servers for SSL [Wed Jul 02 09:34:48 2008] [info] Configuring server for SSL protocol --- On Wed, 7/2/08, Ross Smith <<a href="mailto:rsmith1916@gmail.com">rsmith1916@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > From: Ross Smith <<a href="mailto:rsmith1916@gmail.com">rsmith1916@gmail.com</a>> > Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Apache crashing? > To: <a href="mailto:ozugo@yahoo.com">ozugo@yahoo.com</a> > Cc: <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> > Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 12:34 PM <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:47 AM, ZuG <<a href="mailto:ozugo@yahoo.com">ozugo@yahoo.com</a>> > wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > > > I'm having trouble with my apache 2.2.3 system. > Installed ffmpeg, > > ffmpeg-php, flvtool2, and menconder to run dolphin CMS > system. > > > > Now, apache is crashing randomly, perhaps 2 times a > week. I turned the > > apache logging up fully to try to track it down, and > the apache logs just > > don´t show anything out of the ordinary. Everything > is working fine, and > > then nothing. > > > > Do I get to play the "uninstall stuff until it > stops" game, or is there a > > better suggestion as to how to track this down? > I'm pretty new to > > troubleshooting apache, though I know my way around > the machine pretty well. > > > > > > Erica > > > Any chance you could post the apache and/or messages log > file contents for > the time around when the crash occurs?  There may be > something obscure that > an extra pair of eyes might help to find.  Also, is > anything else crashing > or just apache?  There is a good chance uninstalling ffmpeg > and the other > programs won't help your case.  If anything, I would > suggest re-installing > Apache if you take that route.  Really though, that's a > last route.  Try > changing some settings within apache such as the increasing > the > 'MaxRequestPerChild' and 'ThreadsPerChild' > counts.  It could be as simple as > a memory issue (hopefully). > > -- Ross </div></div></blockquote><div> It's at the top :P </div></div>