Comment 3 for bug 518512

I'm getting this same bug on a debian distribution, with gearmand-0.12 and php gearman-0.7.0.

papa:~# uname -a
Linux papa 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Feb 11 00:59:32 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

When I try to run a php script that starts a client, I get the following:

papa:~/src# php /var/www/joomla/getstocks.php

php: client.c:773: gearman_client_run_tasks: Assertion `client->task != ((void *)0)' failed.
Aborted

I tried modifying the source according to the above comments, but I haven't been able to get it to work. I might have done it incorrectly, but I searched the gearmand-0.12 codeline for a client.c and found one in libgearman. I then commented out two lines that had assertions:

//assert(client->task != NULL);

I then did make; make install, and then went to the php-gearman (0.7) project, recompiled and reinstalled all *that* code, and tried my test again. This time, I did *not* get the same assertion error.

The php script seems to be doing something now, but I'm not sure what. I'll post more once I learn more.