Access Manager agent causes webserver to fail a graceful restart
2 years ago
Originally Published: 2007-04-17
Article Number
000052322
Applies To
Access Manager Agent 4.7
SUSE Enterprise Linux 9
IBM HTTP Server 2.0.47.1
Issue
Would like graceful restart to complete properly.

When IBM HTTP Server is issued a graceful restart command, i.e.

./httpd -k graceful
and a process listing is performed ("ps -ef | grep httpd"), there will be several remaining httpd processes. If you attempt to stop the server with httpd -k stop or start the server again, neither will work.

Cause
The AXM 4.7 binary for Linux was compiled for both SUSE Linux 8 and 9, using older libraries.  These older libraries are not present on SUSE Linux 9 which uses glibc 2.3
Resolution
Setting the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 prior to starting the webserver will resolve the issue.