Apache segmentation fault

Question

Ubuntu 10.10, Apache 2.2.16:

# service apache2 start * Starting web server apache2 Segmentation fault Action 'start' failed. The Apache error log may have more information 

in log:

[ 968.901395] apache2[1850]: segfault at 4 ip b76fafb3 sp bf824b94 error 4 in ld-2.12.1.so[b76f0000+1c000] 

Reinstall don't help

$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install apache2 

Answer 1

Try reinstall all apache packages(segfault apache-mpm, apache2 is metapackage)

sudo apt-get remove apache2 sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get install apache2 

Try check md5sum:

sudo apt-get install debsums sudo debsums -s 

Also try use gdb:

gdb apache2 (gdb) run 

Try backup config:

cp -R /etc/apache2 ~/apache2_conf 

and delete package with config.