[ic] Re: ALERT: bad pipe signal received for /page.html

Mon Dec 11 18:24:17 EST 2006

On Dec 11, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Ron Phipps wrote:
> Josh Lavin wrote:
>> On Dec 11, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Grant wrote:
>>>> > Hello, I've been plagued by apache2 segfaults ever since I  
>>>> started
>>>> > using Interchange::Link years ago.  The latest Link.pm has ALERT
>>>> > messages accompanying the segfaults in error_log:
>>>> >
>>>> > ALERT: bad pipe signal received for /page.html
>>>> > [Sat Dec 09 10:27:55 2006] [notice] child pid 21337 exit signal
>>>> > Segmentation fault (11)
>>>> >
>>>> > Does anyone have any advice on solving this?  I'm using  
>>>> apache-2.0.58
>>>> > and mod_perl-2.0.2 in Gentoo Linux.
>>>>
>>>> Also, here is the portion of Link.pm that the ALERT seems to  
>>>> come from:
>>>>
>>>> # Return this message to the browser when the server is not  
>>>> running.
>>>> # Log an error log entry if set to notify
>>>>
>>>> sub die_page {
>>>>
>>>>     my $r = shift;
>>>>     my $msg;
>>>>
>>>>     warn "ALERT: bad pipe signal received for $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME}\n";
>>>>
>>>>     $r->content_type ("text/html");
>>>>     $r->print (<<EOF);
>>>> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Interrupted</TITLE></HEAD>
>>>> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
>>>> <H3>Someone pressed stop...</H3>
>>>> <P>
>>>> We have aborted this request because someone terminated it.
>>>> Please try again soon.
>>>> </BODY></HTML>
>>>> EOF
>>>>
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if you have any ideas.
>>>
>>> The segfaults are eliminated by commenting out the $r stuff in the
>>> die_page sub.  I still get the ALERTs though.  Does anyone have any
>>> advice on figuring out why I'm having the bad pipe problem?  Is  
>>> there
>>> an easy way to add extra debugging info to the sub?
>>>
>>> Also, restarting IC with PERL_SIGNALS=unsafe increases the ALERTs  
>>> 50 fold.
>> I've been seeing this too, on my Apache 2 and latest Link.pm. I  
>> also had to use PERL_SIGNALS=unsafe and so I get quite a lot of  
>> these.
>> The visible effect on the browser is that the page or image (which  
>> Link.pm apparently still has some part in delivering) does not  
>> load. I get them myself when browsing and testing my websites, and  
>> I have never stopped loading a page or had any other problems on  
>> non-IC sites I host.
>> I was told the problem stems from either the browser and a stop  
>> button or some other network fault. I may go back to Apache 1.3 to  
>> get around this.
>
> I saw this occur on two different installations about 4 months  
> ago.  It was suggested that I abandon the use of Link.pm and go  
> back to using the cgi method with URL rewrite rules as this was  
> just as fast and proved stable over the years.

Is plain CGI really as fast as mod_perl or mod_interchange? That'd be  
my only concern with switching back to CGI+rewrites.

Maybe it is ok -- see mod_interchange's README:

"The Interchange link protocol has been
implemented via an Apache module which
saves us the (small) overhead
of the execution of a CGI program."

--
Josh Lavin
Kingdom Design   http://www.kingdomdesign.com/