Apache error_log random garbage

[Warren Togami]

One of my friend's servers is having STRANGE problems in the Apache
error_log.  Randomly between normal log entries is tons of binary garbage,
and less frequently random dumps of a web page.  It doesn't show up in the
log files themselves, but tail -f shows this random garbage and frequent
"linuxlinuxlinuxlinuxlinuxlinuxlinuxlinuxlinuxlinuxlinux" strings flying
across the screen.  Anyone heard of this problem?  He's using the latest
Nusphere Apache + PHP + MySQL combo.  I'm going to try upgrading his Apache
manually next...


[Sun Apr 15 23:45:02 2001] [error] [client 216.191.189.133] File does not
exist:
 /home/stuff/www/site_gfx/white.gif
[Sun Apr 15 23:45:15 2001] [error] [client 24.201.230.113] File does not
exist:
/home/stuff/www/site_gfx/white.gif

[Sun Apr 15 23:45:20 2001] [error] [client 208.180.81.123] File does not
exist:
/home/stuff/www/site_gfx/white.gif
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[Sun Apr 15 23:45:24 2001] [error] [client 128.
226.119.236] File does not exist: /home/stuff/www/site_gfx/white.gif

Warren Togami
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