Something weird happening... Any help really appreciated

Hi there all, I am currently experiencing problems our intranet server. We are currently running freeBSD 4.11 apache13, php 4.3.11 mysql-323.

Basically last week we had a contractor come in and during some work he was doing on the server, he managed to gzip the entire contents of the /etc directory and a few others as well. Once we finally restored all the compressed files back to normal state using the freeBSD fixit disk, everything appeared to be working correctly......

However, we have been noticing some strange things happening. For example. PHP was compiled with openssl to allow https connections to a server we need to read. Everynow and again the connections https drops out, and we have to restart apache to restore. I am trying to work out whether it is a permissions thing or something else.

I have looked in the httpd-error.log file and the only common thing I can find, since the even is a heap of the following errors:

[Tue Oct 25 00:00:01 2005] [warn] child process 4314 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP
[Tue Oct 25 00:00:03 2005] [warn] child process 4314 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Tue Oct 25 00:00:07 2005] [error] child process 4314 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL
[Tue Oct 25 00:00:07 2005] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart
[Tue Oct 25 00:00:08 2005] [notice] Apache configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Oct 25 00:00:08 2005] [notice] Accept mutex: flock (Default: flock)
[Tue Oct 25 00:04:56 2005] [notice] child pid 49106 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:05:13 2005] [notice] child pid 49096 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:06:19 2005] [notice] child pid 49508 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:06:19 2005] [notice] child pid 49107 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:06:19 2005] [notice] child pid 49100 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:06:19 2005] [notice] child pid 49099 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:06:19 2005] [notice] child pid 49098 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:06:19 2005] [notice] child pid 49097 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:16:19 2005] [notice] child pid 49612 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:16:19 2005] [notice] child pid 49516 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:16:19 2005] [notice] child pid 49514 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:16:19 2005] [notice] child pid 49513 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:16:19 2005] [notice] child pid 49110 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:16:19 2005] [notice] child pid 49104 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:26:22 2005] [notice] child pid 49627 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:26:22 2005] [notice] child pid 49625 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:26:22 2005] [notice] child pid 49518 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:26:23 2005] [notice] child pid 49628 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:26:23 2005] [notice] child pid 49512 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:26:23 2005] [notice] child pid 49102 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:32:58 2005] [notice] child pid 49838 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:33:04 2005] [notice] child pid 49760 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:36:21 2005] [notice] child pid 49756 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:36:21 2005] [notice] child pid 49755 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:36:22 2005] [notice] child pid 49759 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:36:22 2005] [notice] child pid 49634 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:36:22 2005] [notice] child pid 49517 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:36:23 2005] [notice] child pid 49757 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:37:06 2005] [notice] child pid 49617 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:37:14 2005] [notice] child pid 49883 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:38:12 2005] [notice] child pid 49864 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:38:23 2005] [notice] child pid 49865 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:39:51 2005] [notice] child pid 49515 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:40:18 2005] [notice] child pid 49863 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:46:21 2005] [notice] child pid 49938 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:46:21 2005] [notice] child pid 49912 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:46:22 2005] [notice] child pid 50030 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:46:22 2005] [notice] child pid 49891 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:46:22 2005] [notice] child pid 49866 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:46:22 2005] [notice] child pid 49761 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:56:24 2005] [notice] child pid 49906 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:56:25 2005] [notice] child pid 50036 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:56:25 2005] [notice] child pid 50032 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:56:25 2005] [notice] child pid 49892 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:56:25 2005] [notice] child pid 49890 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 00:56:25 2005] [notice] child pid 49889 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:06:27 2005] [notice] child pid 50085 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:06:28 2005] [notice] child pid 50089 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:06:28 2005] [notice] child pid 50033 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:06:29 2005] [notice] child pid 50128 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:06:29 2005] [notice] child pid 50031 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:06:29 2005] [notice] child pid 49943 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:14:23 2005] [notice] child pid 50087 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:15:00 2005] [notice] child pid 50749 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:15:20 2005] [notice] child pid 50651 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:16:47 2005] [notice] child pid 50816 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:16:47 2005] [notice] child pid 50652 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:16:47 2005] [notice] child pid 50642 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:16:47 2005] [notice] child pid 50641 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:16:48 2005] [notice] child pid 50814 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:16:48 2005] [notice] child pid 50097 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:26:32 2005] [notice] child pid 50824 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:26:33 2005] [notice] child pid 50823 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:26:33 2005] [notice] child pid 50820 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:26:33 2005] [notice] child pid 50645 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:26:34 2005] [notice] child pid 50822 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:26:34 2005] [notice] child pid 50088 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:36:24 2005] [notice] child pid 50975 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:36:24 2005] [notice] child pid 50972 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:36:24 2005] [notice] child pid 50821 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:36:24 2005] [notice] child pid 50767 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:36:25 2005] [notice] child pid 50981 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:36:25 2005] [notice] child pid 50973 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Tue Oct 25 01:46:20 2005] [notice] child pid 51109 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

Can anyone give me a heads up on what is happening? whether it could be persmissions thing, or something else I need to possibly look at.

Cheers

I don't know. But if I were you I'd just reinstall apache and PHP. Seems it's time for an upgrade anyway...

hi there thanks for the reply, I actually re-installed php and got rid of all the segmentation 11 errors. It was actually because mcrypt was upgraded through portupgrade, and broke PHP installation, and the new version of the port mcrypt breaks php and I have not had the chance to install libmvrypt yet, so just rebuild php without it for now. and that solved the problem......