PIFR testing-1 php - l segfaults

[Josh Koenig]

On the current PIFR testing image, trying to launch a php file with the following code segfaults randomly:

<?php
exec('php -l -f ./foo.php 2>&1', $output, $code);
echo "$code\n";
?>

where foo.php contains:

<?php
echo "bar";
?>

[Josh Koenig (joshkoenig)]

Feels like a 64-bit bug. We should consider upgrading to php 5.3

[Karoly Negyesi (karoly)]

Just update to 5.2.11

Add

deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all

to /etc/apt/sources.conf

And then apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cgi php5-cli php5-common php5-curl php5-gd php5-mysql php-pear php5 php5-dev

Note. I am not sure whether this is just our instance or Mercury but you want to run apt-get remove.

[Morbus Iff (morbusiff)]

I can confirm, prior to our changes, that there are unused packages, so consider that a firm vote for apt-get remove.

[Jimmy Berry (boombatower)]

With the dotdeb packages there is one test failure that we should look into:
Lock extended by this request. Lock lock.test 28 LockFunctionalTest->testLockAcquire()