Apache segfaults on HUP after adding WFS/GML support to PHP/Mapscript

[Toomas Aas]

Hello!

We have a webserver consisting of:

FreeBSD 5.5
Apache 2.0.59
PHP 5.2.1 (installed as Apache DSO)
PHP/Mapscript 4.10.1

This combo was working fine, until we added WFS client support, which 
meant adding --with-wfsclient to Mapserver configuration, installing 
xerces-c2 v2.7.0 and re-configuring and re-installing GDAL 1.3.1 with 
the --with-xerces switch.

By doing this, we seem to have introduced an unpleasant problem - Apache 
can no longer be restarted with HUP signal (such as running 'apachectl 
restart'). This results in Apache dying with signal 11 and not starting 
up again, until started manually.

As soon as we remove the php_mapscript.so extension from php.ini, the 
problem disappears - except that then our GIS applications are 
unavailable ;)

The backtrace of coredump is simply:
#0  0x2970b444 in ?? ()
#1  0x283cd007 in _pthread_main_np () from /lib/libc.so.5
#2  0x28415beb in __hostdata_init () from /lib/libc.so.5
#3  0x28416348 in gethostbyname () from /lib/libc.so.5
#4  0x0806f26e in ap_get_local_host ()
#5  0x0806bcd3 in ap_fini_vhost_config ()
#6  0x0806b3c6 in main ()

I guess this is not very informative. But maybe someone has encountered 
similar problems?

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Toomas Aas