Your failure has nothing to do with httpd.  There is a bug in the shell's
version of malloc that is not allocating memory correctly.  This bug has
been reported previously.
 
Jeff Kell ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: On Sun, 11 Jun 1995 23:17:01 -0400 Joe Felix said:
: >I just installed NCSA's httpd WWW server (version 1.3) on our HP3000
: >Series 948, and it's running great with one exception.   I'm having
: >trouble getting those cgi scripts to run.  When I try to access any of
: >them (including /cgi-bin/test-cgi), I get a "Network Error 14" (I'm
: >running NetScape 1.1N) or sometimes a "Socket Not Attached" error.  Has
: >anyone else experienced this problem?  Or more importantly, does anyone
: >know how to solve it?  I know it can run properly, because NetScape will
: >execute MPE commands for me when I access the httpd server at
: >jazz.external.hp.com;  I just don't know how to fix it on my machine.
: >Thanks in advance for your help.
 
: cgi-scripts can and will work, or they can bomb randomly, depending on
: what sort of mood your shell is in.
 
: Seriously though, I have been testing a few recently which will quite
: simply fail twice, work a few times, then fail again.  Generally the
: failure is at the same place, and produces the following dump from the
: child process (the parent server is unaffected and continues running):
 
: **** Data memory protection trap (TRAPS 68).
:  ABORT: SH.HPBIN.SYS
:         PC=551.000428ac malloc+$32c
:  NM* 0) SP=418498f8 RP=551.000427ac malloc+$22c
:  NM  1) SP=41849878 RP=551.00023424 clearenv+$4c
:  NM  2) SP=418497f8 RP=551.000236a8 mkenviron+$20
:  NM  3) SP=418497b8 RP=551.0001e768 e_cmd+$30c
:  NM  4) SP=41849738 RP=551.0001d14c execute+$2f8
:  NM  5) SP=418495f8 RP=551.0001d208 execute+$3b4
:  NM  6) SP=418494b8 RP=551.0001d3f4 execute+$5a0
:  NM  7) SP=41849378 RP=551.0001d208 execute+$3b4
:  NM  8) SP=41849238 RP=551.0001d3f4 execute+$5a0
:  NM  9) SP=418490f8 RP=551.0001a18c shell+$1f4
:  NM  a) SP=41848fb8 RP=551.00019ccc mks_main+$9c0
:  NM  b) SP=41848f38 RP=551.0003f7ec main+$80
:  NM  c) SP=41848e38 RP=551.00046668 _start+$bc
:  NM  d) SP=41848d38 RP=551.000192ec $START$+$1c
:  NM  e) SP=41847bb8 RP=551.00000000
:       (end of NM stack)
 
: I have no idea WHY it fails arbitrarily, nor can I get it to either
: consistently fail or succeed.  For instance, I had two successive
: failures, and on the third attempt it worked fine (simply pressing
: the 'reload' button in Netscape while pointed at the script).
 
: Perhaps the above dump will ring a bell with one of the list readers.
: I, for one, am clueless on this one.
 
: PS - This is the 'patched' httpd 1.3 on C.50.02 plus every NS patch
: in the known universe (well almost) :-)
 
: [\] Jeff Kell, [log in to unmask]