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Apache is Exiting!

Around 2am today and yesterday, this message is in the Apache logs:
Child 3403 returned a Fatal error... \nApache is exiting!

A manual start of the httpd service brought it back up fine. Any ideas to see what happened, and troubleshoot?

The server has 2gb of ram installed and [free] currently says:
-/+ buffers/cache: used: 294k free: 1771k

From the log file:
 
accept_mutex_on: Invalid argument
No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging
read_config_store open failure on /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf
read_config_store open failure on /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf
read_config_store open failure on /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf
[Wed May 20 02:35:21 2009] [alert] Child 3403 returned a Fatal error... \nApache is exiting!
accept_mutex_off: Invalid argument
No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging
read_config_store open failure on /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf
read_config_store open failure on /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf
read_config_store open failure on /var/net-snmp/snmpapp.conf

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random_ru

is it the same process id every time? use: pstree -p to find out what it is

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I cleaned up the log files, but still no joy.
I can't update 'cause of OS issues, so I'm switching to a clean install. I think this will fix it. Thanks!