Hi. I’m wondering if someone can help me solve a problem with my Ubuntu 14.04 server running Apache, PHP, MySQL and phpmyadmin. On the webserver, I’m running an IPB 3.4 forum. It had perfect uptime for around 5 months with no issues until a few days ago when Apache crashed unexpectedly. On every restart, apache will work for a few minutes, then crash with the same message.
The error log tells me to raise MaxRequestWorkers setting, but I changed it and the error still persists. I edited it via “/etc/apache2/mods-enabled/mpm_prefork.conf”, is that the correct place to do so, or is there a different place to edit it?
Any assistance on this issue would be great, I’ll put the last few lines of the Apache error log at the end of this post. Thank you!
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.167824 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3651 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.167944 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3664 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.167956 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3690 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.167972 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3666 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.168029 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3672 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.168046 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3673 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.168379 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3711 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.234635 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3486 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.234705 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3595 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.234723 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3610 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.234737 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3616 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.234750 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3619 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.234762 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3632 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.234773 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3635 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.234786 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3651 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.234799 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3664 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.234861 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3690 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.234874 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3666 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.234899 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3672 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.234917 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3673 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.234929 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3711 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.497612 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3616 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.497688 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3619 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.497723 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3635 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.497743 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3651 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.497786 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3666 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.497804 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3672 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.497818 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3673 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:52.497831 2015] [core:warn] [pid 3045] AH00045: child process 3711 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Mon Aug 03 15:00:53.500161 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 3045] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Aug 03 15:01:05.467881 2015] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 1001] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.7 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Aug 03 15:01:05.474812 2015] [core:notice] [pid 1001] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Mon Aug 03 15:02:32.958854 2015] [mpm_prefork:error] [pid 1001] AH00161: server reached MaxRequestWorkers setting, consider raising the MaxRequestWorkers setting
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Had the same issue. I use fpm service and after restarting works as expected. The command I used to restart it was:
sudo systemctl restart php7.2-fpm.serviceI was able to fix it by issuing an upgrade command
hi,were you able to fixed it?im currently having the same problem,have tried tuning apache but still the error still occurs and crashes apache. i would appreciate any help.