Suddenly? Forbidden "You don't have permission to ...

[cwc]

I have been running apache for months now.
all of a sudden I'm getting :

Forbidden

"You don't have permission to access / on this server."

I set default_vhost.include back to the test default.

I have recently upgraded to:
# uname -a
Linux azzerare 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 #1 SMP Fri Aug 5 08:31:13 PDT 2011 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

permissions:
drwxr-xr-x 41 cwc cwc 4096 Aug 4 07:12 sites

log

[Tue Aug 09 20:43:04 2011] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Tue Aug 09 20:44:11 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/1.0.0d configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Aug 09 20:45:27 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied
[Tue Aug 09 20:45:27 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied
[Tue Aug 09 20:45:27 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied
[Tue Aug 09 20:45:30 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied
[Tue Aug 09 20:45:31 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied
[Tue Aug 09 20:45:31 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /favicon.ico denied
[Tue Aug 09 20:47:33 2011] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Tue Aug 09 20:47:36 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/1.0.0d configured -- resuming normal operations
[Tue Aug 09 20:47:41 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to / denied
[Tue Aug 09 20:47:41 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: access to /favicon.ico denied
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Moved from Networking & Security to Duplicate Threads. Inadvertent double post, I think.

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