[php-maint] Bug#711254: It's a problem of PHP and not MySQL

[Karsten Malcher]

Hello Bob,

Am 10.06.2013 02:30, schrieb Bob Proulx:
> Thank you for the bug report. However this is very little to go upon. From what you have said so far there isn't 
> enough information to know what might be happening. At this point the problem could be anything.

Yes - i have the same problem at this time.
But most of the applications are to complex for a simply debug.

> Because php has been updated to 5.5.0 it is most likely that your wikimedia and phpbb applications are not updated to 
> work with the changes in php 5.5. I think that is the most likely problem.

The server installation is complete new (no upgrade) with wheezy from beginning of may.
I installed most of the applications new to the latest stable releases.
So wikimedia is V 1.20.4.
The migration of the previous version seems not make problems.
What can i do more than to install the actual version?

There is other software that has no newer versions.
E.g. http://www.phpmyedit.org/
Here i have the problem that the software is doing nearly nothing.
There is no error message in the apache2 logs and links and buttons are not working.
But this error is consistent.

What i cannot understand is why an update is empty depending of the content (always simple text)?

> If it didn't work at all then there would be many reports.

Yes - i wonder about this also .
And i thought that PHP is more downwards compatible.
Hopefully someone will answer with the same problem.

> Therefore this is probably simply an incompatibility with the recent updates and changes in upstream php 5.5.

Up to now i can't find similar problem descriptions.

> Since you have the problem, and no one else is seeing the problem so far, and you have been making progress debugging 
> it then it would be most helpful if you could keep going and get to the bottom of the problem. Thanks, Bob 

I must find out how to increase the debug information of php5?


Here the installed packages:

ii  libapache2-mod-php5                  5.4.4-14                           i386         server-side, HTML-embedded 
scripting language (Apache 2 module)
ii  php5                                 5.4.4-14                           all          server-side, HTML-embedded 
scripting language (metapackage)
ii  php5-cli                             5.4.4-14                           i386         command-line interpreter for 
the php5 scripting language
ii  php5-common                          5.4.4-14                           i386         Common files for packages built 
from the php5 source
ii  php5-curl                            5.4.4-14                           i386         CURL module for php5
ii  php5-exactimage                      0.8.5-5                            i386         fast image manipulation library 
(PHP bindings)
ii  php5-gd                              5.4.4-14                           i386         GD module for php5
ii  php5-geoip                           1.0.7-8                            i386         GeoIP module for php5
ii  php5-imagick                         3.1.0~rc1-1+b2                     i386         ImageMagick module for php5
ii  php5-imap                            5.4.4-14                           i386         IMAP module for php5
ii  php5-intl                            5.4.4-14                           i386         internationalisation module for 
php5
ii  php5-mcrypt                          5.4.4-14                           i386         MCrypt module for php5
ii  php5-mysql                           5.4.4-14                           i386         MySQL module for php5
ii  php5-pspell                          5.4.4-14                           i386         pspell module for php5
ii  php5-recode                          5.4.4-14                           i386         recode module for php5
ii  php5-sqlite                          5.4.4-14                           i386         SQLite module for php5

Cheers
Karsten