Apache2 fails to start properly after upgrade to Hardy from Gutsy

[Stephen Hill]

I upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy Heron. Apache2 now doesn't appear to start. I was serving gallery2 from it.

When apache2 is being started there are no errors generated but I cannot find any apache2 processes running and "sudo apache2ctl stop" produces: "httpd (no pid file) not running". Also Apache2s error log hasn't been updated since the upgrade. "sudo apache2ctl start" produces no errors either. "netstat -l" shows no port 80 being listened on either. daemon.log doesn't show apache either!
Someone reported a while ago that apache2-mpm-worker was now needed in Hardy, but when I try to install it, it tries to uninstall php5, which I'm using for gallery2.

Strangely webmin is still working (on port 10000).

Here's the output of top:
 5880 root 20 0 2300 976 760 R 3.9 0.1 0:00.07 top
 5685 stephen 20 0 5740 3176 1436 S 1.9 0.3 0:01.04 bash
    1 root 20 0 1800 820 604 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.54 init
    2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
    5 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 events/0
    6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
   45 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 kblockd/0
   48 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
   49 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
  118 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kseriod
  138 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 kondemand/0
  152 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.11 pdflush
  153 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
  154 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0
  192 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
 1132 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksnapd
 1933 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd
 1943 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
 2149 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0
 2150 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux
 2416 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kjournald
 2587 root 16 -4 2220 688 376 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.60 udevd
 3611 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kpsmoused
 4089 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald
 4224 root 20 0 2436 592 276 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 dhclient3
 4530 root 20 0 1712 504 436 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 getty
 4531 root 20 0 1712 508 436 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 getty
 4638 root 20 0 2452 1352 688 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 acpid
 4668 syslog 20 0 1932 644 508 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.07 syslogd
 4717 root 20 0 1868 532 440 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.05 dd
 4720 klog 20 0 3144 2048 420 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.38 klogd
 4748 root 20 0 2256 840 684 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.04 dnsmasq
 4767 root 20 0 5308 1024 672 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 sshd
 4840 root 20 0 4120 1224 936 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.04 ntpd
 4841 root 20 0 6184 3844 876 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.19 ddclient
 4861 root 20 0 1736 472 392 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.27 ifplugd
 4874 root 20 0 1736 468 392 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.16 ifplugd
 5129 root 20 0 1768 520 432 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.03 mysqld_safe
 5171 mysql 20 0 124m 23m 4884 S 0.0 2.3 0:05.40 mysqld
 5172 root 20 0 1696 544 476 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 logger
 5261 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 fakephp
 5297 root 20 0 8068 1296 816 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 winbindd
 5317 root 20 0 8068 1068 580 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 winbindd
 5431 root 20 0 4812 644 376 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 squid
 5436 proxy 20 0 10092 7828 1652 S 0.0 0.8 0:01.86 squid
 5457 proxy 20 0 1556 316 260 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 unlinkd
 5466 daemon 20 0 1980 416 296 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 atd
 5479 root 20 0 2100 884 708 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 cron
 5546 root 20 0 10388 6544 1608 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.33 miniserv.pl
 5677 root 20 0 1712 508 436 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 getty
 5679 root 20 0 8024 2460 2016 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.15 sshd
 5682 stephen 20 0 8024 1532 1076 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.16 sshd
 5811 root 20 0 10520 6616 1648 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.09 miniserv.pl
 5812 root 20 0 10520 6620 1648 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.06 miniserv.pl

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Is there anything in /var/run/apache2?

Thanks
chuck

[Stephen Hill (steve-d-hill)]

/var/run/apache2 is empty

[Stephen Hill (steve-d-hill)]

Ah error.log is moaning -

PHP Warning: [eAccelerator] This build of "eAccelerator" was compiled for PHP version 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.3. Rebuild it for your PHP version (5.2.4-2ubuntu5) or download precompiled binaries$
PHP Fatal error: Unable to start eAccelerator module in Unknown on line 0

[Stephen Hill (steve-d-hill)]

I followed the instructions at http://howtoforge.com/eaccelerator_php5_debian_etch to rebuild and reinstall eaccelerator and now all is fine -:)

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 07:15:36PM -0000, Stephen Hill wrote:
> I followed the instructions at
> http://howtoforge.com/eaccelerator_php5_debian_etch to rebuild and
> reinstall eaccelerator and now all is fine -:)

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