ISPConfig3 and the lenny php5-cli bug

[webno]

Just informing all that running ISPConfig (or any other application that uses php5-cli) might cause segmentation faults.

I'm running lenny inside xen with a compiled kernel from xensource 2.6.18.8-xen.

I'm getting random segmentation faults in my /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log.

/usr/local/ispconfig/server/server.sh: line 7: 22245 Segmentation fault      /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/ispconfig/server/server.php

According to:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=493045

there is a bug somewhere hidden in php5-cli.The bugreport suggests recompiling php5 as a temporary solution.

I'm rather worried that the ispconfig installation script or other scripts ispconfig uses, might run into a segmentation fault without the script itself failing, which in turn might lead to all kinds of strange errors later on for people installing or using ispconfig3 on lenny.

Bart.

[till]

Segmentation faults are often by hardware problems, e.g. RAM problems. I know many ispconfig 3 isntallations on lenny and none of it has segmentation faults and ther are already more thne 10.000 installations of ispconfig 3 so it might be that this is just related to your system od the bug in php is just triggered on your system.

ISPConfig is transaction based and ispconfig will redo a transaction if the script diesd during processing.

[webno]

Did what was advised at:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=493045

1) Install php5-dev, libmysqlclient15-dev and the source of php5 (apt-get source php5)
2) cd php5-5.2.6.dfsg.1/ext/mysql/
3) run "phpize" in this directory
4) ./configure && make && make install

All is fine now.