Segmentation Fault on Install

Anon

I recently went through the process of installing PHP as an Apache module on a system running Solaris 6. The install went beautifully, the only switches I had thrown were apxs and MySQL support (MySQL has been running on the system for some time). However, when I did 'make install' and restarted Apache, the whole website went to sh_t. The front page of the site loaded as usual, but after clicking on any of its normally working links, one was presented with a server not found error. This was mirrored by an error log entry reading:

[date/time info] [notice] child pid 11237 exit signal Segmentation Fault (11)

I removed the apxs entry and restarted Apache once again, bringing the site to its previous stable, non-PHP form. One could argue this post belongs on an Apache forum, but I figure some of you may have seen something of this sort.

Thanks for any help,
-Dan

frymaster

solaris 6? didn't they jump from 2.x to 7.x? or am i smoking crack?

are you running gcc or the cc that came with solaris? really advisable to get gcc! i have had some sleepless nights with the sun compiler... after that my suggestion would be to make clearn, reconfig php, make and make install and THEN (you're gonna hate this) recompile Apache to ensure it will use dso's...

for apache i would include:
./configure -enable-module=most --enable-shared=max

and for php:
./configure -with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql

-frymaster

Anon

Sorry, the Solaris naming convention always confused me. At any rate I'm running version 2.6 and it does have gcc installed.

I'm guessing you meant 'make clean'? I'm pretty new to this whole process, so I wouldn't be surprised if I totally missed the whole clearn step. I have recompiled Apache and tried the process on a different box (also running Solaris 2.6), but I hadn't thrown some of those switches, so maybe those will fix my problem.

I've progressed past the obscure-sounding segfault problem and have graduated to a SO linking problem (or so I think). The most recent error I get is when I try to start Apache:

[12:56am]/usr/local/server/www/bin>sudo ./apachectl start
Syntax error on line 108 of /usr/local/server/www/conf/httpd.conf:
Cannot load /usr/local/server/www/libexec/libphp4.so into server: ld.so.1: /usr/local/server/www/bin/httpd: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/server/www/libexec/libphp4.so: symbol display_ini_entries: referenced symbol not found
./apachectl start: httpd could not be started

Thanks for the help so far...
-Dan

frymaster

i assume that the line 108 is:

LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so

or similar? what i'd try (and these are kinda shots in the dark) is
a) make sure that libphp4.so is executable by everyone and owned by root.
b) try running apachectl as root, not with sudo. sudo can cause some problems (espec if the conf file is too restrictive or badly written... an easy thing to do since ebnf is about as intuitive russian)
c) is yer libexec/ world executable? is it owned by root?

those are really lame suggestions i know...

pmarkanderson

So what ever happened with this? I would be interested to know as I am struggling with similar errors on both my Linux and Mac OS X boxes.