RedHat 8.0 Apache + Python CGI segmentation faults

[Steve Holden]

[Tim Churches]
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> > On Behalf Of Steve Holden
> > Sent: Sunday, 23 February 2003 6:17 AM
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> > Subject: RedHat 8.0 Apache + Python CGI segmentation faults
> >
> > Couldn't find anything about this in Google. A new machine is running
> RH
> > 8,
> > and the Apache web server is working. However, attempts to run Python
> CGI
> > scripts result in segmentation faults, even though the scripts will
> run
> > quite happily under the user "apache" identity.
> >
> > Is this a known phenomenon, or am I going to have to get the dread gdb
> > out?
> > All the error log records is several segmentation faults for each
> > attempted
> > CGI access.
>
> I have an identical set-up, with RH 8.0 and Apache 2, and Python CGI
> scripts are working as expected. Ah, but I did compile my own version of
> Python (2.2.2)
>

Well, I'm using the default Apache (2.0.40) and Python (2.2.1) installations
from the distro. I guess it wouldn't hurt to update them, since nobody's
recognized the problem so far.

Thanks for the reply.

regards
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