Bug#703000: apache-preforks, &, modperl, segfaults

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 05:03:21PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
> >> I downgraded mod-perl, 2.0.7-1 crashes, too (the same backtrace)
> >> 
> >> Then I downgraded apache to 2.2.22-12 and 2.2.22-12 + modperl 2.0.7-1
> >> don't crash. Also apache 2.2.22-12 and modperl 2.0.7-2 don't crash,
> >> too.
> >> 
> >> But backtrace points to mod-perl, so I doubt to reassign the
> >> bugreport.
> 
> > As an additional data point, I am happily running apache2/mod_perl2
> > from unstable/amd64 with no issues.
> 
> > apache2 is 2.2.22-13 and libapache2-mod-perl2 is 2.0.7-3, which
> > basically is the same as Dmitry's environment.
> 
> Now I've upgraded apache2 to 2.2.22-13 (again) and upgraded mod-perl
> to 2.0.7-3 and I can't reproduce the bug.
> So may be it is worth to rebuild mod-perl 2.0.7-2 with new apache
> or to push 2.0.7-3 to testing?

2.0.7-3 will appear in testing soon (in fact, the release time has already
unblocked and aged it), but there's still an underlying problem to
discover here relating to binary compatibility between Apache and mod_perl.

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