My Apache machine just took a dump :( And on the restart it presented these errors:
[auth_digest:notice] [pid 29978] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ... [core:emerg] [pid 29978] (28)No space left on device: AH00023: Couldn't create the authdigest-opaque mutex [auth_digest:error] [pid 29978] (28)No space left on device: AH01760: failed to create lock (opaque_lock) - all nonce-count checking, one-time nonces, and MD5-sess algorithm disabled [:emerg] [pid 29978] AH00020: Configuration Failed, exiting
A quick check with tools like free and df show there is plenty of space on the system. I’m not out of disk space; this is a new error for me.
As it turns out, Apache has been leaving stuff left behind in shared memory that needs to be cleaned up. You can use the ipcs -s command to find this. When Apache is stopped, we simply flush these out with the following incantation.
for s in $(ipcs -s | awk '/^0x.*www\-data/ { print $2 }')
do
ipcrm -s $s
done
And hooray, now we can restart Apache!
To prevent this error, you may want to go ahead an disable mod_auth_digest, if you are not using it.
You may want to adjust the allocation of shared memory on your system, to allow for more Semaphore Arrays, if you use the auth_digest. Take a look at AuthDigestShmemSize parameter as well