[oe] Recent update to modphp segfaults

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/2/12  <openembedded at status.e4ward.com>:
> Hello all.
>
> I am using OpenEmbedded with my Gumstix Overo. I am attempting to put
> Apache2 and PHP on there. I tried to build Apache2-2.2.14, and it
> broke on the configure step saying that some checks can't be done
> while cross compiling. Rather than figure that out, I was pressed for
> time and simply used Apache2-2.2.3 instead. That worked fine.
>
> I recently pulled new updates, and I tried Apache-2.2.14 again. It
> built! I was happy about that, but then when I tried to get it working
> with modphp, the Apache2 error log had a bunch of lines like "[notice]
> child pid xxxx exit signal Segmentation fault (11)". So I decided to
> try Apache2-2.2.3 again (just in case) and I have the same problem. So
> my only conclusion is that, although the package version and release
> version of modphp remained the same, it was updated (when I had it
> working correctly there was no /etc/apache2/modules.d/ directory; now
> there is). Is it now broken? I'm not quite sure what the issue is; any
> advice would be welcome!
>
>    Thanks!
>
>         Kyle Fazzari

It is quite possible that you are running out of memory.
Kill some processes and try again (or set up swap space).

Btw, you might want to have a look at lighttpd.
apache is a PITA

Frans