cgit v0.10.2-26 + apache2 = random 500 Internal Server Error

[John Keeping]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 12:05:03PM +0100, Fabien Bagard wrote:
> I do face a strange problem with cgit 0.10.2-26 (Pulled from git).
> 
> All my repos are correctly scanned, but after a random amount of time,
> from 5 secondes to tens of minutes, it seems something stops working :
> Apache2 throws ans error 500 : Internal server error.
> Sometimes it starts to work again, but most of the time, I have to
> reload apache. Not using apache is not a solution

This sounds like an Apache problem and not anything to do with CGit
(although I guess CGit could be triggering the issue).

Since CGit is a CGI process, there is nothing that persists between
requests, so I would not expect a CGit problem to relate to the lifetime
of the Apache process.