Somewhat of an emergency ... Our production server has developed a fascinating little error, running the same code as our test server (which, obviously, doesn't exhibit this error):

Apache::SharedMem object initialization: wrong root map type at /us
r/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/Apache/SharedMem.pm line 972 (Carp::
+confess/115)
        Apache::SharedMem::_init_root('Apache::Cache=HASH(0x90676b4)')
+ called at /usr/local/lib/perl
5/site_perl/5.8.3/Apache/SharedMem.pm line 1068
        Apache::SharedMem::_init_namespace('Apache::Cache=HASH(0x90676
+b4)') called at /usr/local/lib
/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/Apache/SharedMem.pm line 244
        Apache::SharedMem::new('Apache::Cache','namespace','n_web') ca
+lled at /usr/local/lib/perl5/s
ite_perl/5.8.3/Apache/Cache.pm line 197
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Any insights?

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