thanks... unfortunately i couldnīt find anything. in fact i just restarted, got the usual error message... then looked into the error_log, and there was no entry from the corresponding boot date/time, the last entry was "[notice] Accept mutex: flock (Default: flock)" from several hours ago.
anymore ideas?
you have to know that a friend of mine recently tried to install the latest apache/mysql/php on my system, which failed at some point (well, php 4.3 works actually)... so probably thatīs where the troubles started. maybe there are some config files to verify?
(i have already tried to replace httpd.conf with an older backup, which didnīt help...)