gallery2 segfault when uploading images

[Bill]

I just upgraded to 12.10. After the upgrade, when I try to upload images to my gallery2 installation, I no response from the web server, and when I look at my apache error logs, I see the following:

[Sun Oct 28 21:55:59 2012] [notice] child pid 8016 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10

$ apt-cache policy gallery2
gallery2:
  Installed: 2.3-1ubuntu6
  Candidate: 2.3-1ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 2.3-1ubuntu6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[alex dekker (ubuntu-ale)]

I had this exact problem and the solution that worked for me after some googling [http://gallery.menalto.com/node/95244] was to edit /etc/gallery2/config.php, and change

$storeConfig['usePersistentConnections'] = false;

to

$storeConfig['usePersistentConnections'] = true;

At that point I was then able to successfully upload images. However, the frustrating thing about this is that it still worked after reverting the change!

[Bill (bill-launchpad)]

That change with a restart of apache ("sudo service apache2 restart") got it working for me. Thanks!

[alex dekker (ubuntu-ale)]

This has recurred, and I have realised that it's the restart of Apache that fixes it, not the edit to config.php [which necessitated the restart].