3.6 Menu Problems

The new custom menu page shows an empty menu. My custom menu still shows on the front end but the back end does not sow a custom menu. If i try to add a new menu item to the empty menu I get a 500 error.

my log file shows this:

[Mon Aug 05 11:29:23 2013] [warn] (103)Software caused connection abort: mod_fcgid: ap_pass_brigade failed in handle_request function