[php-maint] Bug#577784: Bug#577784: segfault with php5-cgi

[Martin Sebald]

Hello Sean!

> * what requests are generating the segfaults (you should be able to trace
> the 500 errors to the URL's in question)

Well, I don't see much Apache logs. Just stuff like:

> [warn] (104)Connection reset by peer: mod_fcgid: read data from fastcgi server error.
> [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] Premature end of script headers: index.php

I found out about the segfaults when experiencing problems with the
specific website. The website runs WordPress with many plugins. WP and the
plugins are up-to-date. As the requests all run through index.php I cannot
say more.

> * code to reproduce the problem if possible

See above.

> * a backtrace to show where the error is coming from (install the
> php5-dbg package, get the cgi to dump core when it segfaults, and do a
> bt)

The server (in fact three servers which all had the same problem before
downgrading) is a production server. So upgrading again is not the easiest
thing. If the information I provided in this mail isn't any good I will try
to do this anyway, but late at night.

> * a list of installed/activated php5 extensions and their versions.

php-apc 3.1.3p1-2
php-db 1.7.13-2
php-http 1.4.1-1
php-mail 1.1.14-2
php-net-imap 1.1.0beta2-1.1
php-net-smtp 1.3.1-1
php-net-socket 1.0.9-2
php-pear 5.3.2-1
php-xml-parser 1.3.0-1
php5 5.3.2-1
php5-cgi 5.3.2-1
php5-cli 5.3.2-1
php5-common 5.3.2-1
php5-curl 5.3.2-1
php5-gd 5.3.2-1
php5-imap 5.3.2-1
php5-mcrypt 5.3.2-1
php5-mysql 5.3.2-1
php5-suhosin 0.9.31-1
php5-xmlrpc 5.3.2-1

Regards,
Martin