Comment 13 for bug 173043

Hi, I've got almost the same bug on amd64
Like it does for uwe, phpmyadmin crash on start page (wich is quite annoying)

Here is the kind of message in /var/log/apache2/error.log when trying to access phpmyadmin
[Sun Dec 02 13:25:46 2007] [notice] child pid 5622 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Dec 02 13:25:46 2007] [notice] child pid 5623 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Sun Dec 02 13:25:46 2007] [notice] child pid 5624 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

Downgrading to php5 5.2.3-1ubuntu6 solved the problem, but was quiet difficult as I'm just a newbie

I did reinstall full apache, but do not believe this is necessary. I think the following lines are enough to downgrade:

sudo apt-get autoremove php5-common
sudo apt-get install php5-common=5.2.3-1ubuntu6
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5=5.2.3-1ubuntu6
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql=5.2.3-1ubuntu6

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

As you can see, I did not install php5-cgi, so I think the bug is not due to this package. But I think you should reinstall any package linked to php5-common with the =5.2.3-1ubuntu6 option to downgrade and get rid of any bug that appeared with this recent upgrade.
I think this bug only occurs with 64 bit version, since it was not reported by a lot of people, through very annoying for all of thoose using phpmyadmin.

I do not understand how to solve this without downgrading (self-compiling a package is beyond my scope), so I hope the patch will be available in very few time in adept updater.