bug related to 8325. made sure i applied all in 8325 but still get... >Child 2292: Starting 250 worker threads. >An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. : winnt_accept: >AcceptEx failed. Attempting to recover. i also uninstalled qos/filter/mcafee firwall v4 and still get the above fatal error starting apache.
i just reinstalled xp and apache. apache fired up just fine. installed mcafee virus scan v7 (no firewall) and apache then failed. it is not a mcafee firewall problem, it is mcafee antivirus software. contacting mcafee with the problem. will update soon.
had a live chat with McAfee technician who informed me that VirusScan v7 is not compatible with server software. Since the phrase "web server" has the word "server" in it, v7 will not work with it. I did find out that disabling mcafee v7 does not help. I did find out that stopping the McShields service does help. After the service stops, apache webserver does start and function. I do have an open ticket with McAfee on this problem.
Then there is really nothing we can do to resolve this bug. Thank you for your very detailed diagnostics and reports!
Reopening to tag as dup
Reclassifing as duplicate of 8325 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8325 ***