[ic] Internal server error on switching to secure server

[Stefan Hornburg]

On 29 Apr 2003 21:31:10 -0400
Kevin Old <kold@carolina.rr.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 20:57, Kevin Old wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > I've got a production site running 4.9.7 and have had several people say
> > that when they go to our basket or checkout pages (or any secure page)
> > they get an internal server error.  The domain is
> > http://www.entermagic.com and the SSL certificate is for the same.  I'm
> > using Apache 1.3.27, RH 7.3.
> > 
> > I just restarted IC and Apache and everything works like a charm.  But,
> > after 24 hours (or even less, I had this problem yesterday too) the
> > secure server "isn't responsive".  By saying it that way, I'm not
> > exactly sure what's going on.  Sure you can request pages from the
> > server, but it gives the user an "Internal Server Error" but that does
> > not show up in either the access_log or the error_log for apache.
> > 
> > All that the global error.log reports is:
> > 
> > 66.244.44.168 - - [28/April/2003:16:15:27 -0400] em
> > /cgi-bin/em/wilderness.html Died in server spawn: Bad counter magic ''
> > in /home/ic/catalogs/em/tmp/addr_ctr/6/6/66_244_44_168 at
> > /usr/lib/interchange/lib/Vend/Session.pm line 208
> > >
> > - - - [28/April/2003:16:18:38 -0400] - - page server pid 11073 won't
> > die!
> > 172.16.8.14 SNo4NcL5:172.16.8.14 - [28/April/2003:16:22:30 -0400] em
> > /cgi-bin/em/admin/genconfig.html Can't read file
> > '/usr/lib/interchange/etc/interchange.pid' with NoAbsolute set
> > - - - [28/April/2003:16:23:54 -0400] - - page server pid 8382 won't die!
> > 172.16.8.14 SNo4NcL5:172.16.8.14 - [28/April/2003:16:28:33 -0400] em
> > /cgi-bin/em/admin/genconfig.html Can't read file
> > '/usr/lib/interchange/etc/interchange.pid' with NoAbsolute set
> > 172.16.8.14 SNo4NcL5:172.16.8.14 - [28/April/2003:16:31:55 -0400] em
> > /cgi-bin/em/admin/genconfig.html Can't read file
> > '/usr/lib/interchange/etc/interchange.pid' with NoAbsolute set
> > 172.16.8.14 SNo4NcL5:172.16.8.14 - [28/April/2003:16:32:22 -0400] em
> > /cgi-bin/em/admin/genconfig.html Died in server spawn: GDBM could not
> > tie to '/home/ic/catalogs/em/products/access.gdbm': Resource temporarily
> > unavailable at /usr/lib/interchange/lib/Vend/Table/GDBM.pm line 117.

If you are using a SQL database, it is recommended to move the Interchange
Database (ITD) access there as well.

Bye
	Racke