Bug#242499: libapache-mod-perl and request-tracker3 randomly sends html to error log instead of browser

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 06:14:29PM -0600, Andre wrote:
> After enabling mod_perl to use with request-tracker3 I randomly get: 
> 
> [Tue Apr  6 17:42:50 2004] [notice] child pid 9885 exit signal
> Segmentation fault (11)
> 
> But this only happens after randomly sending request-tracker(perl) pages
> directly to the apache error log instead of the web-browser. This has
> affected my php pages as well although I have not noticed the php html
> in the log files I now occasionally get empty responses from apache.
> 
> In an attempt to fix this problem I did the changed following in
> /usr/share/request-tracker3/libexec/webmux.pl
> 
> #use Carp;
> use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
> 
> After restarting apache it worked fine for several hours.  Now it won't
> display a page from the request-tracker (perl pages) in the browser
> instead all the pages are going to error log instead.

There was quite a bit of investigation on this bug, but no resolution
was ever reached. As this bug relates to long-obsolete versions of
Apache and mod_perl, I am inclined to close this now, but does anyone
have anything to add before I do?

Thanks,
Dominic.

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