Apache dumping core since the php changes due to recode.so ?(reply)

[Bryant Eadon]

Yes, I am seeing the same thing -- I am stracing it and find that after my install of PHP5 on x86, 
something tanks.

I have upgraded (make deinstall  of mod_php4 , make install of mod_php5 )   but the system is still 
broken.

Checking the httpd.core with GDB wasn't very helpful.  I installed strace from ports and checked the 
  output as the process ran with :   sudo strace httpd -X     --- I kept getting segfaults ..  So I 
safely dropped the output to file:   sudo strace -o file.out httpd -X

Checking the strace output and what was going on I saw there was a problem with recode.so a module 
compiled in with PHP5.  With some google searching I came up with this post, which, when I renamed 
the file it indeed allowed me to fix the problem, but I wanted to know what was really happening.

So, with a bit more help on EFnet #php I was able to determine that recode.so doesn't agree with a 
couple different files,  here is a website -- check the Note at the bottom for some in depth details!

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.recode.php


To summarize it:
1.  Don't include recode.so unless you really need it because it conflicts with various other .so 
files.

2.  Fixing how your php.ini load order might fix the problem -- load the recode before others.

My solution was to drop recode.  Is this a bug ?  I'm not familiar with bug submission guidelines .. 
if anyone would like to forward this to the developer (or if you're the developer) I'll happily 
provide more details.



Later,

-- 
Bryant Eadon
Computer Systems Engineer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute