updates killed apache

[Tony Green]

Binary package hint: libapache2-mod-php5

(package guessed - may be incorrect)
Kubuntu 8.10, AMD-64.

I installed today's updates, which attempted to re-start Apache2. But Apache failed to start. The following error appeared in the error log:
"/usr/sbin/apache2: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/php5/20060613/pdo_mysql.so: undefined symbol: php_pdo_declare_long_constant"

I can get Apache to start OK by removing php5.load from /etc/apache2/mods-enabled.

The following packages were installed:
php5-cli 5.2.6-2ubuntu4
php5-gd 5.2.6-2ubuntu4
libapache2-mod-php5 5.2.6-2ubuntu4
php5-common 5.2.6-2ubuntu4
php-pear 5.2.6-2ubuntu4
php5 5.2.6-2ubuntu4
php5-dev 5.2.6-2ubuntu4

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for reporting this issue.

Could you be missing the php5-mysql package?

Also, are you at version 5.2.6-2ubuntu4 or 5.2.6-2ubuntu4.1?

[Ondřej Surý (ondrej)]

It more looks like pdo.so is not loaded:
php5-common: /usr/lib/php5/20060613/pdo.so

What is contents of your /etc/php5/conf.d directory? And /etc/php5/conf.d/pdo.ini file?

[Tony Green (ubuntu-beermad-deactivatedaccount)]

Interestingly, installing php5-mysql DOES fix this problem. So thanks for that, Marc.

Seems strange that it was OK without it before the update; possibly something strange in the install of PDO_MYSQL - either that or something that was in it got deleted by the upgrade.

I'm now at 5.2.6-2ubuntu4.1, by the way.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Great! I'm closing this bug.