Apache2 binary vanished during upgrade

[Mike Bird]

On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 04:17, David wrote:
> I've just upgraded from hoary to breezy using the install CD, 
> then apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade.
> 
> Apache2 binary has vanished without trace. 
> 
> When I do 
> david at test:~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
> nothing happens at all. 
> 
> david at test:~ $ sudo apache2ctl configtest
> /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: line 88: /usr/sbin/apache2: No such file or directory
> 
> The last mention of apache in /var/log/dpkg.log says:
> 
> 2005-12-10 22:24:56 status half-configured apache2-common 2.0.54-5ubuntu3
> 2005-12-10 22:24:56 status installed apache2-common 2.0.54-5ubuntu3
> 
> If anyone can tell me what happened to the apache2 binary, or where else I 
> might have gone wrong, I would be most grateful. I don't want to completely 
> re-install apache2 because I don't want to mess up the nice config that was 
> working perfectly before the upgrade.
> 
> I'm also a bit worried what else might turn up missing, since this is the 
> first thing that i tried :(

Variants of the apache2 binary are contained in the various MPM
packages, not apache2-common.  We use apache2-mpm-prefork but
there are other choices.

--Mike Bird