by ajlopez » 17. January 2012 17:06
As I had this problem several times I reinstalled xampp just today with the standard settings. The Windows Event Viewer shows several errors (application folder) with origin crypt32 but I don't know it this has anything to do with the problem.
The following one appears in error.log:
[Tue Jan 17 14:00:31 2012] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Jan 17 14:00:31 2012] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Jan 17 14:00:34 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8o PHP/5.3.4 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Jan 17 14:00:34 2012] [notice] Server built: Oct 18 2010 01:58:12
[Tue Jan 17 14:00:34 2012] [crit] (22)Invalid argument: Parent: Failed to create the child process.
[Tue Jan 17 14:00:34 2012] [crit] master_main: create child process failed. Exiting.
[Tue Jan 17 14:00:34 2012] [notice] Parent: Forcing termination of child process 36
[Tue Jan 17 15:35:40 2012] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Jan 17 15:35:40 2012] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Jan 17 15:35:42 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8o PHP/5.3.4 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Jan 17 15:35:42 2012] [notice] Server built: Oct 18 2010 01:58:12
[Tue Jan 17 15:35:42 2012] [crit] (22)Invalid argument: Parent: Failed to create the child process.
[Tue Jan 17 15:35:42 2012] [crit] master_main: create child process failed. Exiting.
[Tue Jan 17 15:35:42 2012] [notice] Parent: Forcing termination of child process 36
Thank you hackattack142.