Apache broke itself

[Purple Turnip]

My server upgraded to latest Apache 2.2 and it broke itself:

Here's the problem and the instructions I tried to follow to fix it but that didn't work either:
http://bghints.blogs...httpd-from.html (also maybe http://serverfault.c...t-create-socket )


Apache won't start, won't stop, won't let me apt-get remove it (or purge it)... won't let me apt-get install it or update it. In fact, it broke apt-get so I can't do anything with it.

obsidian:~# apt-get upgrade -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.109) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 (2.6.26-27) ...
Running depmod.
WARNING: could not open /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/modules.order: No such file
or directory
WARNING: could not open /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/modules.builtin: No such fil
e or directory
Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version
2.6.26-2-amd64 on running kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 in mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yai
rd
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Setting up acpid (1:2.0.16-1) ...
[....] Starting ACPI services...invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "start" fa
iled.
dpkg: error processing acpid (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acpi-support-base:
acpi-support-base depends on acpid (>= 1.0.4); however:
Package acpid is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing acpi-support-base (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libapache2-mod-rpaf (0.6-7) ...
WARNING: MaxClients (256) is not an integer multiple
of ThreadsPerChild (25), lowering MaxClients to 250
for a maximum of 10 child processes,
WARNING: MaxClients (512) is not an integer multiple
of ThreadsPerChild (25), lowering MaxClients to 500
for a maximum of 20 child processes,
[Thu Apr 11 06:41:47 2013] [crit] (22)Invalid argument: alloc_listener: failed t
o get a socket for (null)
Syntax error on line 10 of /etc/apache2/ports.conf:
Listen setup failed
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-rpaf (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw for module r816
9
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw for module r816
9
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw for module r816
9
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw for module r816
9
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw for module r816
9
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw for module r816
9
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw for module r816
9
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw for module r816
9
W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays.
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Warning: Partition 3 on /dev/sda is not marked Active.
Fatal: No images have been defined.
run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//runlilo exited with return code 1
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64
acpid
acpi-support-base
libapache2-mod-rpaf
initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

obsidian:~# apt-get purge apache2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'apache2' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
defoma g++-4.4 libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libaudiofile0 libcdt4 libdb4.8
libdbi0 libevent-1.4-2 libevent-core-1.4-2 libevent-extra-1.4-2 libexiv2-9
libfont-freetype-perl libgraph4 libgs8 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common
libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libgvc5 libkadm5clnt-mit7
libkadm5srv-mit7 libmagickcore3 libmagickcore3-extra libmagickwand3
libpango1.0-common libpathplan4 libstdc++6-4.4-dev libxcb-render-util0
libxdamage1 libxdot4 lsof x-ttcidfont-conf
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up initramfs-tools (0.109) ...
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Setting up linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 (2.6.26-27) ...
Running depmod.
WARNING: could not open /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/modules.order: No such file
or directory
WARNING: could not open /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/modules.builtin: No such fil
e or directory
Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version
2.6.26-2-amd64 on running kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 in mkinitramfs-kpkg mkinitrd.yai
rd
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Setting up acpid (1:2.0.16-1) ...
[....] Starting ACPI services...invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "start" fa
iled.
dpkg: error processing acpid (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acpi-support-base:
acpi-support-base depends on acpid (>= 1.0.4); however:
Package acpid is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing acpi-support-base (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libapache2-mod-rpaf (0.6-7) ...
WARNING: MaxClients (256) is not an integer multiple
of ThreadsPerChild (25), lowering MaxClients to 250
for a maximum of 10 child processes,
WARNING: MaxClients (512) is not an integer multiple
of ThreadsPerChild (25), lowering MaxClients to 500
for a maximum of 20 child processes,
[Thu Apr 11 07:02:08 2013] [crit] (22)Invalid argument: alloc_listener: failed t
o get a socket for (null)
Syntax error on line 10 of /etc/apache2/ports.conf:
Listen setup failed
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-rpaf (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-2.fw for module r816
9
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw for module r816
9
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw for module r816
9
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw for module r816
9
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw for module r816
9
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-1.fw for module r816
9
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw for module r816
9
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw for module r816
9
W: mdadm: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf defines no arrays.
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Warning: Partition 3 on /dev/sda is not marked Active.
Fatal: No images have been defined.
run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//runlilo exited with return code 1
dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64
acpid
acpi-support-base
libapache2-mod-rpaf
initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

obsidian:~#

[Grumpy]

You have lot more than apache that's broken. And your links up top aren't pointing where it should... it just point to this very page.

[Luis Manson]

Well, here is your problem:

Syntax error on line 10 of /etc/apache2/ports.conf:

but its the last one you should take care of