apachectl gracefult causes Signal 11 crash after 6.3 to 7.0 upgrade [SOLVED]

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 05:51:20PM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
> It seems a php-extensions bug.
> If you comment the mhash.so in /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini as:
>
> ;entension=mhash.so
>
> all works fine and you don't get anymore httpd crash (signal 11) if you
> use 'apachectl graceful'.
>
> Maybe will be a good idea to open PR for this?
>
> I hope it helps someone.... (I'm very surprised that this isn't a
> documented bug in 7.0 yet)

Many people have reported that the *order* of the extensions in
extensions.ini has adverse (positive) effects on PHP segfaults on
FreeBSD.

I myself haven't ever run into extension ordering issues like those
described (and we've done hosting for years), but I don't doubt those
who have experienced such.

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