PHP4 causes apache to fail to start

[Per Bojsen <per.bojsen@comcast.net>]

Hi,

about 10 days ago I rebooted after about a month of uptime and
discovered that apache did not start properly.  It would start but
hang before finishing its initialization.  It would not serve any web
pages.  Today I tracked the problem down to php4.  I disabled php4 in
the apache setup and apache now again serves web pages successfully.
Fortunately, I haven't been using php4 for anything of any
importance.

Looking in the php4 changelog I noticed the following entry:

  php4 (4:4.3.10-9.0.0.1.gcc4) unstable; urgency=low
  
    * patches/php4_4.3.10-9.0.0.1.gcc4.patch applied.
  
   -- Andreas Jochens <aj@andaco.de>  Mon, 07 Mar 2005 04:34:08 +0100

There were several other entries in the timeframe between the last
and the second before last reboot (~15 Feb to 13 Mar).  Since I did
not see any bug reports about this problem in the Debian BTS I'm
guessing this is a amd64 specific problem.  I am using the
gcc-3.4/gcc4 archive.

Thanks,
Per

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Per Bojsen                                              <per.bojsen@comcast.net>
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