if you’re getting things like:<\/p>\n
then this tip is for you! ipcrm sem `ipcs -s | grep apache | cut -d’ ‘ -f2`<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" if you’re getting things like: (28)No space left on device: mod_python: Failed to create global mutex 23 of 32 (\/tmp\/blahblahblah). [Wed Apr 14 11:53:47 2004] [error] mod_python: We can probably continue, but with diminished ability to process session locks. [Wed Apr 14 11:53:47 2004] [error] mod_python: Hint: On Linux, the problem may be the number … Continue reading “tip: apache won’t start, semphore problems”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}(28)No space left on device: mod_python: Failed to create global mutex 23 of 32 (\/tmp\/blahblahblah).
\n[Wed Apr 14 11:53:47 2004] [error] mod_python: We can probably continue, but with diminished ability to process session locks.
\n[Wed Apr 14 11:53:47 2004] [error] mod_python: Hint: On Linux, the problem may be the number of available semaphores, check 'sysctl kernel.sem'
\n(28)No space left on device: Couldn't create accept lock
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\nApache seems to leave behind semaphores (whatever those are) and you’ll get the above errors if it does. Running this command fixed it for me:<\/p>\n