Bug#803043: mod_perl2 / Apache segfaults after upgrading from Wheezy to Jessie

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:21:12AM +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> Package: libapache2-mod-perl2
> Version: 2.0.9~1624218-2
> Severity: grave

> after upgrading our otrs2 server from wheezy/amd64 to jessie I noticed
> dozens of apache segfaults per day on this machine. In dmesg it looks like
> this:

> Now the more curious thing. I have updated another server from Wheezy to
> Jessie, which is just serving gitolite and subversion repositories (about
> mod_svn). After the upgrade full svn checkouts were impossible, also because
> of segfaults from Apache itself. Later I found, that mod_perl2 was installed
> and activated on this system, but it was not used at all. So uninstalling
> libapache2-mod-perl2 solved the issue on the server, where it was not
> required.

Thanks for the report.

Would it be possible for you to test if 2.0.9-1 from stretch/sid has
the same behaviour? The binaries aren't quite installable in jessie,
but the build dependencies are so it's just a simple rebuild. I can also
provide binaries if you like.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org