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

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On 02/04/2010 11:43 PM, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
> Nilesh Govindarajan writes:
>> On 02/02/2010 04:14 PM, Ashish SHUKLA 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
>
>> Did you get any start-up errors after upgrading PHP ?
>
> Nop, I didn't get any errors in error_log of httpd, if thats what you
> meant. And also nor any errors during upgrade.
>
>> You should upgrade php-mysql as well. Because you're changing the
>> version of libmysqlclient (mysql) whereas php-mysql is linked to some
>> other version.
>
> There is no 'php-mysql' package in the repositories. You probably mean this:
>
> #v+
> abbe [~] chateau.d.if % sudo pacman -Ql php |fgrep mysql
> php /usr/lib/php/modules/mysql.so
> php /usr/lib/php/modules/mysqli.so
> php /usr/lib/php/modules/pdo_mysql.so
> #v-
>
> Ashish

Now try one thing, upgrade only apache and php. Check if it works with 
older version of mysql.

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Nilesh Govindarajan
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