latest PHP port causes apache to child pid exit signal Bus error (10)

[Phil Brennan]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:13:52 +0100, Xavier Beaudouin <kiwi at oav.net> wrote:
> > After upgrading php to 4.3.10_2 and apache to 2.0.53,
> > I get the following whenever the mail() function in php is called.
> >
> > Fatal error 'Unable to read from thread kernel pipe' at line 1100 in
> > file /usr/src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_kern.c (errno = 0)
> > [Wed Feb 23 15:52:19 2005] [notice] child pid 93430 exit signal Abort
> > trap (6)
> >
> > so, apache crashes, the page stops loading. This is a major issue
> > since we run
> > a few phpbb's which email people when a topic is replied to.
> > Running FreeBSD 5.2.1
> >
> > I don't think downgrading php to 4.3.9 is an option, since there were
> > major
> > security holes fixed in 4.3.10
> 
> Php is not thread safe... This is the problem (not apache2). We (the
> Caudium Group) has
> this problem when we tried to make a SAPI for Caudium which threaded.
> Even with makeing
> mutexes or whatever the whole server was segfaulting or lock it self
> because of non thread safe coding.
> 
> If you use php as mod_php with apache2 I recommand you to use
> NPM=prefork...
> 
> /Xavier
> --
> Xavier Beaudouin - Unix System Administrator & Projects Leader.
> President of Kazar Organization : http://www.kazar.net/
> Please visit http://caudium.net/, home of Caudium & Camas projects
> 
> 
I am using prefork.