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Bug 830888

Summary: www-servers/apache-2.4.53: version bump
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Tomáš Mózes <hydrapolic>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Apache Team - Bugzilla Reports <apache-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://downloads.apache.org/httpd/CHANGES_2.4.53
See Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=829787
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Bug Blocks: 835131    

Description Tomáš Mózes 2022-01-10 07:52:27 UTC
One of my servers with apache 2.4.52 suddenly failed to accept connections. It turned out no child processes were spawned, only the main process running as root.

Maybe related:
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65769
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1896505
Comment 1 Tomáš Mózes 2022-01-10 07:53:00 UTC
Seems to be other reported as well: https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/ups-421-apache-2-4-52-issues.696537/
Comment 2 Tomáš Mózes 2022-01-29 06:39:16 UTC
Reproduced on second machine with 2.4.52 and MPM event.
Comment 3 Tomáš Mózes 2022-03-14 10:39:52 UTC
Fix present in 2.4.53:

  *) mpm_event: Fix a possible listener deadlock on heavy load when restarting
     and/or reaching MaxConnectionsPerChild.  PR 65769.  [Yann Ylavic]
Comment 4 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev Security 2022-03-14 16:25:06 UTC
I've just added apache 2.4.53 to the tree, so this can now be tested.