[Intrepid] PHP crashes on startup with '/usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/gd.so' and 'mcrypt.so'

[Lasse Havelund]

Binary package hint: php5-common

When attempting to start php from the command line in Intrepid, I get the following error message:

[02:00:20] menza@alderaan - ~ $ php
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/gd.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/gd.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/mcrypt.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20060613+lfs/mcrypt.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

This has been tested with versions php5-common php5-common 5.2.6-2ubuntu3 and 5.2.4-2ubuntu5, and the corresponding versions of php5-cli (5.2.6-2ubuntu3 and 5.2.4-2ubuntu5).

[Adam Sommer (asommer)]

Do you have the php5-gd and php5-mcrypt packages installed? If not, did you have them installed and at some point remove them?

[Lasse Havelund (lhavelund)]

I'd installed php* from the repositories (in Intrepid), yes. However, I'd removed all these with the --purge flag prior to attempting the packages from Launchpad.

[Adam Sommer (asommer)]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Lasse Havelund <email address hidden> wrote:

> I'd installed php* from the repositories (in Intrepid), yes. However,
> I'd removed all these with the --purge flag prior to attempting the
> packages from Launchpad.

It may be that the configuration files for php5-gd and php5-mcrypt weren't
removed. Can you double check that /etc/php5/conf.d/mcrypt.ini and
/etc/php5/conf.d/gd.ini are actually removed? Also, you may double check
that extension=gd.so and extension=mcrypt.so lines are not in any of the
files in /etc/php5/*

--
Party On,
Adam

[Lasse Havelund (lhavelund)]

The configuration files were, as you nicely described, not removed - php works great now. I'll mark the bug as 'Invalid' - thanks. :)