php5-cgi crashed with SIGSEGV in virtual_file_ex()

[Motin]

Binary package hint: php5

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 18 17:41:39 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/php5-cgi
Package: php5-cgi 5.2.3-1ubuntu6.2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/php5-cgi
ProcCwd: /var/www/virtual/fantada.com/motin/code/app/webroot
ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: php5
Stacktrace: #0 0x0000000000604c8d in virtual_file_ex ()
StacktraceTop: virtual_file_ex ()
ThreadStacktrace:

Title: php5-cgi crashed with SIGSEGV in virtual_file_ex()
Uname: Linux sumo.digitalsteam.net 2.6.22-14-server #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 22:09:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux
UserGroups:

DESCRIPTION:

On a freshly installed Gutsy server 64-bit machine, the latest version of php5-cgi is constantly segfaulting causing internal server 500 error messages!

We have five sites here currently:
 1. A drupal-based site
 2. A very simple single php-script based site
 3. A more complex custom developed php-based site
 4. A CakePHP-alfa based site
 5. A CakePHP-prebeta based site

Interesting thing is that number 1,2 and 4 works fine, but 3 and 5 causes segfaults everytime!

Live report: Logs generated after a visit on site number 3:

/var/log/syslog:
Dec 14 10:35:31 Ubuntu-710-gutsy-64-minimal kernel: [632734.251124] php5-cgi[11686]: segfault at 00007fff5a9b1ff0 rip 00002b8951e62e38 rsp 00007fff5a9b1fb0 error 6

/var/log/apache2/error.log (with LogLevel debug):
[Fri Dec 14 10:35:30 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/var/www/fcgi/domain3.com/php5-fcgi-starter" (uid 2006, gid 2006) restarted (pid 11685)
[Fri Dec 14 10:35:33 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/var/www/fcgi/domain3.com/php5-fcgi-starter" (pid 11685) termination signaled
[Fri Dec 14 10:35:33 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/var/www/fcgi/domain3.com/php5-fcgi-starter" (pid 11685) terminated by calling exit with status '0'

Live report: Logs generated after a visit on site number 5:
/var/log/syslog:
Dec 14 10:37:28 Ubuntu-710-gutsy-64-minimal kernel: [632850.783120] php5-cgi[11572]: segfault at 00007fff0c83a5e8 rip 0000000000604c8d rsp 00007fff0c83a5c0 error 6

/var/log/apache2/error.log (with LogLevel debug):
[Fri Dec 14 10:37:28 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/var/www/fcgi/domain5.com/php5-fcgi-starter" (uid 2009, gid 2009) restarted (pid 11854)
[Fri Dec 14 10:37:34 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/var/www/fcgi/domain5.com/php5-fcgi-starter" (uid 2009, gid 2009) restarted (pid 11858)
[Fri Dec 14 10:37:40 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/var/www/fcgi/domain5.com/php5-fcgi-starter" (uid 2009, gid 2009) restarted (pid 11862)
[Fri Dec 14 10:37:45 2007] [warn] FastCGI: (dynamic) server "/var/www/fcgi/domain5.com/php5-fcgi-starter" (pid 11572) terminated due to uncaught signal '11' (H\x89l$\xe0L\x89l$\xf0H\x89\xfdL\x89t$\xf8H\x89\\$\xd8I\x89\xcdL\x89d$\xe8H\x83\xecHL\x8bgHH\x89T$\x10L\x89OPM\x89\xc6H\x8bD$PH\x89wpH\x89GXI\x83<$), a core file may have been generated

Note: This _may_ be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/+bug/173817 , but as you see above, the error messages differ.
As this is the 1ubuntu6.2 version, I do not think it is related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php5/+bug/173043 .

This is not specific to this php-version! I downgraded the following packages:

    apt-get install php5-common=5.2.3-1ubuntu6
    apt-get install \
    libapache2-mod-php5=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php-pear=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php5=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php5-cgi=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php5-cli=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php5-curl=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php5-dev=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php5-gd=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php5-mhash=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php5-mysql=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php5-pspell=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php5-recode=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php5-snmp=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php5-sqlite=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php5-tidy=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php5-xmlrpc=5.2.3-1ubuntu6 \
    php5-xsl=5.2.3-1ubuntu6

   apt-get install \
   php5-idn \
   php5-imagick \
   php5-imap \
   php5-mcrypt \
   php5-memcache \
   php5-ming \
   php5-ps

And it still segfaults in the same manners!

What can I do to help diagnose this further?

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Is this still a problem for you in hardy?

Thanks
chuck

[Motin (motin)]

I don't know since I reverted to 32-bit gutsy instead of 64-bit.

[Michael Lustfield (michaellustfield)]

Can you try this in Ubuntu 8.10 and tell us if the problem still occurs?

[Michael Lustfield (michaellustfield)]

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