[mod_python] Apache Segfault

This is (at least used to be) in the docs/FAQ/archives
somewhere - the mod_python module must be the first
module loaded for some unknown and untraceable reason.
 This problem and its solution seems to be appearing
on the list often, perhaps the answer to it should be
highlighted in the docs.

Ciao
Alexis

--- Ben Leslie <benno at sesgroup.net> wrote:
> Moin Matthias!
> 
> Matthias Bauer schrieb am Freitag, den 29. September
> 2000:
> 
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > I'm having some severe trouble installing
> mod_python 2.5 with the
> > following environment:
> > 	SuSE Linux 7.0
> > 	Python 2.0b1 with threads
> > 	Apache 1.3.12 
> > 
> > I compiled mod_python.so with the following
> command:
> > 
> 
> 
> <snip a bunch of details about apache segfaulting>
> 
> I think I _may_ know what the problem is.
> 
> I have installed mod_python on my laptop with no
> problems, very easy
> (once I actually read the instructions ;), anyway
> needed this on one
> of the servers, so I asked my sysadmin to install. 
> 
> This turned out to be harder than I would have
> expected, we started 
> with apache-ssl and couldn't get the thing working,
> kept segfaulting.
> 
> I said maybe it is a conflict with ssl extensions so
> we uninstalled 
> acpache-ssl and installed apache standard, tried
> same thing happened.
> 
> After much swearing and cursing it turns out that
> the position of 
> mod_python in the LoadModule section is very
> important.
> 
> By placing mod_python as the first Module imported
> things are good and
> work fine, having mod_python as the last module to
> load causes segfault.
> 
> </boring story>
> 
> So the moral is:
> 
> make sure you load mod_python before other modules.
> 
> Gregory: Is this an expected problem? Should I patch
> the docs? 
> (I don't think I have the time or ability to patch
> the code ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Benno
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