[arch-general] Recent update to php-apache breaks LAMP stack.

[Evangelos Foutras]

On 04/02/2010 08:19 μμ, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
> Angel Velásquez writes:
>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Ashish SHUKLA<wahjava.ml at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd recently updated php, mysql, and php-apache packages to following versions:
>>>
>>> php 5.3.1-4
>>> mysql 5.1.43-1
>>> php-apache 5.3.1-4
>>>
>>> After update my existing webapps started showing error: Unable to connect to
>>> database, with nothing changed on the webapps side. After assuming that recent
>>> update cause them to break, I downgraded all related packages, and then
>>> upgraded them one-by-one. Following is the final combination which worked for
>>> me:
>>>
>>> php 5.3.1-4
>>> mysql 5.1.43-1
>>> php-apache 5.3.1-3
>>>
>>> If anyone also exhibits this behaviour, then I can report this as bug.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Ashish SHUKLA
>>> --
>>> They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety,
>>> deserve neither liberty nor safety.
>>>   -- Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin
>>>
>
>> would you like to paste in someplace your php.ini config and your
>> pacman -Ql | grep php
>
> The only change in php.ini is the values of upload_max_filesize,
> error_reporting and display_errors settings, which I don't think will cause
> any breakage.
>
>> what database are you using, I guess mysql, right?,
>
> Right.
>
> Thanks
> Ashish SHUKLA

This should be fixed in the php 5.3.1-5 packages.

See: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17930