All web access gone after yum update

[foxyguitarman]

I was running Centos 5.4, with the latest version of scalix. I did a reconfigure of all of the services using scalix-installer.

I did a yum update and updated everything that showed up (I know that is stupid now, it has never broken me before though) and now I'm at Centos 5.5

After the yum update a few days ago, I thought all was ok, but I went to access the server via http and nothing happens. The mail portion is working correctly, I can IMAP perectly. But when i go to mydomain.com or mydomain.com/webmail or mydomain.com/sac any browser just sits there spinning for ever and times out. I can't find anything in the httpd logs.

I did find this in a log for tomcat:

Apr 15, 2011 11:24:14 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol pause
INFO: Pausing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-mail.mydomain.com%2F64.221.173.215-8080
Apr 15, 2011 11:24:15 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService stop
INFO: Stopping service Catalina
Apr 15, 2011 11:24:18 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol destroy
INFO: Stopping Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-mail.mydomain.com%2F64.221.173.215-8080
Apr 15, 2011 11:24:18 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener lifecycleEvent
INFO: Failed shutdown of Apache Portable Runtime
Apr 15, 2011 11:28:31 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener lifecycleEvent
INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the j
ava.library.path: /usr/java/jre1.5.0_21/lib/i386/server:/usr/java/jre1.5.0_21/lib/i386:/usr/java/jre1.5.0_21/../lib/i386Apr 15, 2011 11:28:32 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-mail.mydomain.com%2F64.221.173.215-8080
Apr 15, 2011 11:28:32 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 2686 ms
Apr 15, 2011 11:28:32 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Apr 15, 2011 11:28:32 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.28
Apr 15, 2011 11:28:32 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
Apr 15, 2011 11:28:48 PM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader validateJarFile

But I don't know if that means anything. Where can I start to look to find where httpd or tomcat could be screwed up?

I did notice that in the yum log, it did update httpd, tomcat and postgres to the last versions. Is that bad?

Please help!

Thank you!

[fkienker]

Is this CentOS 5.5 or CentOS 5.6? There were issues with httpd with 5.6 which are in the RH bug list.

You also might try rebuilding the PostgreSQL database. There are now two tracks in CentOS 5 - 8.1 and 8.3. The database files have to be upgraded with 8.3.

[foxyguitarman]

You are right it went up to 5.6

I did what the bug site recommended and now httpd works perfectly. Thank you!

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4796

which says to do:

chown root.apache /etc/httpd/alias/*.db
chmod 0640 /etc/httpd/alias/*.db

Thank you thank you thank you!!!