My 2 OTRS instances are separated, working on their own directory (/otrs1 and /otrs2) with separated Config.pm, Kernel.pm and Defaults.pm files, separated scripts into httpd.conf Apache config and separated cronjobs.I did try with 1 and with 2 MySql users to each OTRS instance, with 1 and with 2 operating system users, but it did not solve the problem.
I think the problem is in how I am using apache2-perl-startup.pl script: Each script was modified to point to a different directory; I dont know