[warn] long lost child came home! - apache2ctl graceful

I found some strange log entries like " [warn] long lost child came home! " and I dont understand why they are there.

I've recogniced an relation betwee the following commands and the log entries.

apache2ctl stop :

Code:

[Wed Mar 21 22:25:22 2007] [alert] (9)Bad file descriptor: FastCGI: read() from pipe failed (0)
[Wed Mar 21 22:25:22 2007] [alert] (9)Bad file descriptor: FastCGI: the PM is shutting down, Apache seems to have disappeared - bye

apache2ctl start

Code:

[Wed Mar 21 22:25:36 2007] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/lib/apache2/suexec2)
[Wed Mar 21 22:25:36 2007] [notice] FastCGI: wrapper mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/lib/apache2/suexec2)
[Wed Mar 21 22:25:36 2007] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 23812)
[Wed Mar 21 22:25:37 2007] [notice] Apache configured -- resuming normal operations

apache2ctl restart

Code:

[Wed Mar 21 22:25:50 2007] [notice] SIGHUP received.  Attempting to restart
[Wed Mar 21 22:25:50 2007] [notice] FastCGI: wrapper mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/lib/apache2/suexec2)
[Wed Mar 21 22:25:50 2007] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 23896)
[Wed Mar 21 22:25:51 2007] [notice] Apache configured -- resuming normal operations

apache2ctl graceful

Code:

[Wed Mar 21 22:34:55 2007] [notice] SIGUSR1 received.  Doing graceful restart
[Wed Mar 21 22:34:55 2007] [notice] FastCGI: wrapper mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/lib/apache2/suexec2)
[Wed Mar 21 22:34:55 2007] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 24202)
[Wed Mar 21 22:34:56 2007] [notice] Apache configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Mar 21 22:34:56 2007] [warn] long lost child came home! (pid 24118)

Are these logs normal and do you have simular logs?

 

From time to time something like this happens. I've had this on my servers, too.

 

Check this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/stopping.html