[php-maint] Bug#691318: Bug#694473: apache2: segmentation fault after reload, maybe PHP

[Nye Liu]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 09:28:53PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> On Monday 07 January 2013, you wrote:
> > However, I've been unable to produce core dumps (see my previous
> > message to #691318) to confirm for sure.
> 
> Strange, I can't remember having the same problem.
> 
> You could try setting /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable to 1.

I had to use fs.suid_dumpable=2

> Also, look into /etc/apache2 for coredumps, too. There is a short time 
> period during restart where the core dump directory will be set to the 
> compiled-in server root directory (I think this is a bug).

Yes. The segfault happens before any of apache's core dump directory stuff is
processed.

I used kernel.core_pattern=/var/tmp/cores/%e.%p.%h.%t to make it easier to sort
out what cores are what.