[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#714082: Apache restart fails, manually killing sympa necessary

[Daniel Pocock]

Package: sympa
Version: 6.1.11~dfsg-5
Severity: important

I've noticed that since upgrading to wheezy, Sympa was broken, I found
log messages like this in /var/log/apache2/error.log:

Use of uninitialized value $_[0] in sprintf at
/usr/lib/perl/5.14/Sys/Syslog.pm line 368.
Use of uninitialized value $_[1] in sprintf at
/usr/lib/perl/5.14/Sys/Syslog.pm line 368.

and the whole content of the generated pages was being dumped to the
error.log too.

After finding some info about the error in a search, I installed
libapache2-mod-fcgid

Now, apache restarts are sometimes getting stuck and it is logging
messages like this:

[notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[error] FastCGI process 19501 still did not exit, terminating forcefully

At this point, I kill /usr/lib/cgi-bin/sympa/wwsympa.fcgi and then
Apache starts working again

Related package versions (from wheezy):

libapache2-mod-fcgid                   1:2.3.6-1.2
apache2                                2.2.22-13