Comments on: Starting httpd2 (prefork) /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork: undefined symbol: apr_atomic_xchgptr

By: kruszak

kruszak — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:26:34 +0000

hello colls,

I have some trouble, when try to update libapr1.
I has got a message:

Problem: nothing provides libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.9) needed by libapr1-1.3.8-3.1.i586
Solution 1: do not ask to install a solvable providing libapr1 > 1.2.12-27.2

Help me pls

By: Chad say's

Chad say's — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:33:55 +0000

kudos for the fix!!

happy camper:-)

By: Untit1ed

Untit1ed — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:29:14 +0000

thanks a lot

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:21:15 +0000

Thanks for this tip, I had the same problem upgrading to Apache2_2.2.11. I had to install libapr-util & libapr1 separately, but everything worked. Thanks…

By: CTS

CTS — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:09:20 +0000

Worked on OpenSuSE 11 as root:

yast2 –update apache2-utils apache2-prefork libapr-util1 libapr1

By: LAMP Help - openSUSE Forums

LAMP Help - openSUSE Forums — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:08:51 +0000

[...] Re: LAMP Help Strange. libapr-1.so.0 contains one or two apr_atomic_xchg* symbols but not apr_atomic_xchgptr. Could you have a foreign apache module installed from somewhere else, from an external package for Ruby perhaps? Do you have any non-OpenSUSE packages or software installed? Or perhaps a hangover from an older version of SUSE? Hah, ok, a search found the solution. You need to update some additional packages after the update to apache2, which I assume is because you got the latest version during the install. Starting httpd2 (prefork) /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork: u… [...]

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:06:39 +0000

Someone’s formatter got a little carried away on the command line and turned the — into an em dash. Replace the — with two hyphens and it works.

By: Skilly

Skilly — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:41:39 +0000

Thank you very much for this nice article