# Apache2 frequently stops with a python error (SLES 12 SP 1)

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**Created:** [February 1, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/apache2-frequently-stops-with-a-python-error-sles-12-sp-1/27856 "2016-02-01T20:00:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![jwookyoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@jwookyoo](https://forums.suse.com/u/jwookyoo)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/apache2-frequently-stops-with-a-python-error-sles-12-sp-1/27856/1 "2016-02-01T20:00:11Z")

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Hello,

The apache2 server frequently stops with the error below. When I manually (re)start the apache2 server, it starts okay.

The error messages in the apache2 log:  
[Sat Jan 30 14:15:02.081221 2016] [mpm\_prefork:notice] [pid 19521] AH00171: Graceful restart requested, doing restart  
[Sat Jan 30 14:15:02.113546 2016] [:notice] [pid 19521] mod\_python: Creating 8 session mutexes based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads.  
[Sat Jan 30 14:15:02.113562 2016] [:notice] [pid 19521] mod\_python: using mutex\_directory /tmp  
Fatal Python error: PyEval\_SaveThread: NULL tstate  
[Sat Jan 30 14:15:02.113634 2016] [core:notice] [pid 19521] AH00060: seg fault or similar nasty error detected in the parent process

Please let me know if anyone has an advice.

Thank you!  
Jae

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**Post date:** [February 8, 2016, 7:30am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/apache2-frequently-stops-with-a-python-error-sles-12-sp-1/27856/2 "2016-02-08T07:30:17Z")

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