segmentation fault with xml_parse

Anon

I'm trying to use PHP (PHP 4.0.4 under Apache 1.3.14 on Solaris 2.5.1) to transform XML documents, using a simple script based on the mapping example given in the PHP manual. All goes well - the XML parser seems to be created successfully - until I call the 'xml_parse' function, at which point the Apache child process exits with a segmentation fault. It doesn't seem to dump core anywhere, it just dies.

PHP was built with '--with-xml' (with no arguments, so that it would use Apache's 'expat' library).

Any suggestions that could help me track down, work around, or resolve this problem?

Thanks

 Angus

Anon

Try and see if this patch helps:
http://rpms.arvin.dk/php/source/patches/php-zend.patch

(A problem regarding the XML-parser has been found in PHP 4.0.4. It's not the XML-parser's fault, but is related to an object-handling problem which the fix above probably mends.)

Anon

Many thanks for your reply, and apologies for asking a possibly stupid question, but I notice that the path refers to 'rpms', and your web pages talk about RedHat Linux. Before I do something I might regret, is it safe to assume that the patch will also work for a PHP install on Solaris 2.5.1?

Thanks

Angus

Anon

The patch works at the source code level, so it's CPU+OS independant.

Anon

The patch solved the problem - my XML processing script now runs without throwing segmentation errors. I had to hand-edit the patch into place (I got a failure on one hunk), but that could well be down to the fact that I was using the Solaris 'patch', rather than GNU's.

Thanks very much for your help.

 Angus