Re: PHP4 causes apache to fail to start

[Andreas Jochens <aj@andaco.de>]

Hello,

thank you for the bug report.

On 05-Mar-22 23:28, Per Bojsen wrote:
> 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

The patch is necessary for compilation with gcc-4.0:

diff -urN ../tmp-orig/php4-4.3.10/ext/xmlrpc/libxmlrpc/xml_element.c ./ext/xmlrpc/libxmlrpc/xml_element.c
--- ../tmp-orig/php4-4.3.10/ext/xmlrpc/libxmlrpc/xml_element.c  2004-06-01 22:16:18.000000000 +0200
+++ ./ext/xmlrpc/libxmlrpc/xml_element.c        2004-12-30 22:50:25.000000000 +0100
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@

       Q_Destroy(&root->children);
       Q_Destroy(&root->attrs);
-      my_free((char*)root->name);
+      my_free(root->name);
       simplestring_free(&root->text);
       my_free(root);
    }

I do not think that this patch is the cause for your problems.

Maybe it is gcc-4.0 optimization bug. I will install php4 
on my own server and try to find out what is going on.

Regards
Andreas Jochens