Installation hang on Step 2 screen

  • Resolved sasdrtx

    (@sasdrtx)


    18 years, 6 months ago

    I have looked at many previous posts on this topic, and have yet to find a resolved one that seems to address my issue.

    Relevant software levels:
    MySQL version: 4.0.20-log

    PHP 4.4.2 (cli) (built: Feb 1 2006 20:30:14)
    Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
    Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies

    SERVER_SOFTWARE=Apache/2.0.52 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/4.4.2 SVN/1.3.0

    Linux 2.4.26. Slackware 10.0

    I am not able to get installation to finish step 2. It hangs with the first part of the screen, saying it’s creating some database tables, etc. After some digging, I find that it is killing the Apache process with this message:

    [Wed May 10 10:07:54 2006] [notice] child pid 9895 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

    This is turning into the Famous 5 day install.

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  • Thread Starter sasdrtx

    (@sasdrtx)

    OK, I have resolved this myself. Hopefully, this will be of use to some other poor amateur Linux administrator.

    I installed PHP 4.4 from a tarball, and configured and built it. One of the config options is ‘–with-mysql’, which I of course specified. This is wrong. It must be ‘–with-mysql=/usr’. The former form causes PHP to use its own included copy of MySQL. WTF good is that? I don’t know, but it does cause random bugs and errors because its mysql and the one the system is using are out-of-sync. Once I re-built using the latter form, all is well.

    PHP may be a nice language, but its implementation is teh suck. Perl rules!

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