Did XAMPP cause all this?

[night-coder]

Hi,

I just installed XAMPP on Windows with XP. XP is fully updated.

I also run ZoneAlarm and AVG Anti-Virus on this box.

After installation of XAMPP I suddenly had vsmon.exe shutdown. This is the main prgram for the ZoneAlarm Security Center. I had a message displayed that said that vsmon.exe was terminated by another program in an unusual way.

I also could not launch AVG Test Center and got some weird message.

I also could not launch my "Add/Remove Programs" from the Windows Control Panel.

I also could not access any emails or any page on the internet.

I also kept getting messages that Windows do not have enough system resources to execute any XAMPP function I tried to perform.

I have a brand new dual-core pentium with 512 meg RAM.

I restarted Windows and everything seems to be functioning fine right now. I am currently running a full virus scan and so far I see AVG telling me that user32.dll was changed.

I did start http://localhost and everything looks fine here as well. I am just concerned about this strange set of events mentioned above. Was this XAMPP that caused all this? Should I be concerned?

Thanks for your help.

John

[Codesmith]

I just installed 2 different versions of XAMPP (1.6.0a and 1.5.4) in two physical machines and 3 virtual machines without anything like that happening. The virtual machines only have 256 MB of memory.

I am guessing something else broke your system.

If it were my PC I would do virus scans, spyware scans, check the memory with memtest86 ..... regular general troubleshooting stuff.

[hsnopi]

I get this same error. did a little searchng and found this...
http://www.internetwealthmaster.com/running-xampp-on-windows-xp-home/

not sure why this is the case. semes to work though

[hsnopi]

Iwent and modified somepermission in ZA rto see if it would make a difference. I do have issues from time to time wiht the Control panel starting Mysql (ports are opened, i checked).

I found this int he apache log
PHP/4.4.5 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed May 02 20:40:29 2007] [notice] Server built: Mar 5 2007 11:23:00
[Wed May 02 20:40:29 2007] [notice] Parent: Created child process 4324
[Wed May 02 20:40:30 2007] [notice] Child 4324: Child process is running
[Wed May 02 20:40:30 2007] [notice] Child 4324: Acquired the start mutex.
[Wed May 02 20:40:30 2007] [notice] Child 4324: Starting 250 worker threads.
[Wed May 02 20:40:31 2007] [notice] Child 4324: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Wed May 02 20:40:31 2007] [notice] Child 4324: Starting thread to listen on port 443.
[Wed May 02 20:49:28 2007] [crit] (22)Invalid argument: unable to replace stderr with error_log
[Wed May 02 20:49:28 2007] [crit] (2)No such file or directory: unable to replace stderr with /dev/null
[Wed May 02 20:49:28 2007] [crit] (22)Invalid argument: unable to replace stderr with error_log
[Wed May 02 20:49:28 2007] [crit] (2)No such file or directory: unable to replace stderr with /dev/null
[Wed May 02 20:49:29 2007] [notice] Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8e mod_autoindex_color PHP/4.4.5 configured -- resuming normal operations

and am wondering if the dev/null is causing issues. I am running on a windows machine and thought that might be causing a problem. obviously something else causes the error to start this cycle but...any port in a storm.

[hsnopi]

i had adjusted some program controls in zonealarm to see if i could get it to work as not having a firewall is not an option. Same thing occurred. It seems the vsmon.exe error is a precurser to the pv.exe error.

[Sun Apr 29 16:04:54 2007] [notice] Child 14048: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Sun Apr 29 16:05:00 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: H:/xampp/htdocs/xampp/allaccess
[Sun Apr 29 16:05:33 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: H:/xampp/htdocs/xampp/allaccess
[Sun Apr 29 16:07:15 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: H:/xampp/htdocs/xampp/allaccess
[Sun Apr 29 16:07:20 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: H:/xampp/htdocs/xampp/allaccess
[Sun Apr 29 16:07:55 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: H:/xampp/htdocs/xampp/htdocs
[Sun Apr 29 16:08:12 2007] [alert] [client 127.0.0.1] H:/xampp/htdocs/allaccess/tickets/.htaccess: Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
[Sun Apr 29 16:12:56 2007] [alert] [client 127.0.0.1] H:/xampp/htdocs/allaccess/tickets/.htaccess: Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
File 'c:\mysql\share\charsets\?.conf' not found (Errcode: 13)
Character set '#48' is not a compiled character set and is not specified in the 'c:\mysql\share\charsets\Index' file
[Sun Apr 29 16:39:40 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: H:/xampp/htdocs/allaccess/tickets/image, referer: http://localhost/allaccess/tickets/
File 'c:\mysql\share\charsets\?.conf' not found (Errcode: 13)
Character set '#48' is not a compiled character set and is not specified in the 'c:\mysql\share\charsets\Index' file
File 'c:\mysql\share\charsets\?.conf' not found (Errcode: 13)
Character set '#48' is not a compiled character set and is not specified in the 'c:\mysql\share\charsets\Index' file
File 'c:\mysql\share\charsets\?.conf' not found (Errcode: 13)
Character set '#48' is not a compiled character set and is not specified in the 'c:\mysql\share\charsets\Index' file

[Codesmith]

FYI I have only run XAMPP under Windows XP Pro SP2, Windows XP Media Center 2005 and Windows Vista, never tried running it on XP Home.