I have (well, _had_) the same issue. In my case it was a too small /tmp
partition (64MB tmpfs to be precise). This was not big enough for
Apache's scoreboard, so, death ensued on graceful or other restarts.
Switching to a /tmp with ample space fixed the issue.
HTH
M
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