Segmentation fault trying to log into brand new install

taupehat · 2005-11-15 02:53:03

Hi there.

System is debian sarge with Apache/1.3.33, PHP/4.3.10-16, mysql 4.1.11. I did the install via the very simple instructions given on the download page, created a database, etc, and did the setup/index.php and created the config page as the setup instructed. Now, however, whenever I go to login to the admin interface at /textpattern/index.php, I get a longish wait and then apache segfaults! Behold:
[Mon Nov 14 18:46:45 2005] [notice] child pid 27349 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
I get one of those about sixty seconds after trying to login, and the browser just stops trying to load the page – it’s as if I never clicked the login button at all.

I’ve never seen apache segfault like this, and given the very common setup my server uses, this is pretty well baffling – memory usage doesn’t go off the charts, I’m not thrashing the disk, and neither syslog nor mysql sees anything wrong. Any ideas?

taupehat · 2005-11-15 03:00:24

It’s worth mentioning that if I try to pass nonsense credentials to the login page, it correctly tells me that I gave a bad username and password.

zem · 2005-11-15 05:30:29

There was a similar problem with certain versions of WAMP, though that was with PHP 5, and triggered during installation. Perhaps this is related. You’ll find some pointers in that FAQ entry.

Other than that, you know as much as we do.

taupehat · 2005-11-15 05:36:49

Tres bizzarre. I can’t imagine that it’s related to a windows apache bug, although I’ll run that code snippet under the noses of the apache folks and see if they don’t come up with something. Is there a work-around within textpattern that wasn’t posted in there?

zem · 2005-11-15 05:46:06

If I recall correctly, upgrading PHP did the trick. I think the weblog post confirms it was a PHP problem, not Apache, and that’d be my first guess in your case (though I wouldn’t rule out Apache either).

taupehat · 2005-11-15 05:47:18

Argh, off to check backports.

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Segmentation fault trying to log into brand new install

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