php problems

[Panagiotis Christias]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 5:56 PM, mikel king <mikel.king at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Aug 5, 2013, at 11:33 PM, Mark Moellering <mark at msen.com> wrote:
>
> > A few years ago (2011) I set up an email system for a small internet
> based company.  I used postfix with a mysql backend for virtual accounts.
>  I also set up apache to test a php based webmail front-end.
> > I set up several php scripts that would run from cron that would query a
> database and look for new email account requests and then do a variety of
> tasks to get everything set up properly.
> > After I left, someone else made modifications to the system and things
> stopped working properly.  A few months ago I was asked to try and get
> things working again.
> >
> > I discovered that all php scripts now generate a seg fault.
> >
> > I tried a simple "hello world" type program
> > the actual code is :
> > <?php
> > echo "test"
> > ?>
> > and the output was;
> >
> > testsegmentation fault
> >
> > The system is FreeBSD 8.2 and php 5.3
> >
> > If anyone has any idea of what changes might have been made that could
> cause this, please let me know.  My other thought was to try reinstalling /
> upgrading php.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Mark Moellering
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> Hey Mark,
>
> Do you have a backup/alternative system you can test the code on? In lieu
> of that I would seriously consider rebuilding php. After you get it working
> it would be worth also considering upgrading to 55.
>
> Also make a complete revision backup of the code and config files once you
> get it working, this will save a lot of hair if the company in question
> hires someone else to tweak things in the future…
>
> Cheers,
> Mikel
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Hello,

If a simple command like "php -v" (no script) results a seg fault then you
should follow Patrick's advice. Or try editing by hand
/usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini and comment out one by one the extensions
mentioned in there.

If you are lucky you will find one or more offending extensions that you
don't need and leave them commented out on uninstall them. If not, you
would have to recompile/reinstall the offending extensions or portupgrade
php and all extensions. Latest php versions in ports tree (all branches:
5.4.x, 5.3.x, even 5.2.x) seem to have resolve this issue.

Regards,
Panagiotis

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Panagiotis Christias
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