[Pmapper-users] Re: mapscript crash

[Armin Burger]

Paolo,

I think the today's posting on GDAL-DEV

http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2006-January/007706.html

tackles the same problem. And they provide a workaround for it.

Armin

Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Some further info about the crash: on another machine, the crash did not 
> occur, but appeared suddenly today after upgrading, so it must be some new 
> version of one package (perhaps apache itself? 2.0.55-3 where it does not 
> work, 2.0.54-5 where it does).
> All the best.
> pc
> 
> At 15:43, giovedì 29 dicembre 2005, Paolo Cavallini has probably written:
>> Hi all.
>> I've reinstalled mapserver and mapscript, but I'm still having problems
>> with mapscript crashing apache. From /var/log/apache2/error.log I get:
>>
>> [Thu Dec 29 15:28:59 2005] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
>> [Thu Dec 29 15:29:01 2005] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest
>> authentication ...
>> [Thu Dec 29 15:29:01 2005] [notice] Digest: done
>> [Thu Dec 29 15:29:01 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.55 (Debian) PHP/4.4.0-4
>> mod_ssl/2.0.55 OpenSSL/0.9.8a configured -- resuming normal operations
>>
>> and when I switch on and off repeatedly a raster, the program hangs.
>> Further attempts generate:
>> [Thu Dec 29 15:37:26 2005] [notice] child pid 10118 exit signal
>> Segmentation fault (11)
>>
>> This is related to window size: with smaller window, I get a crash at the
>> 3rd or 4th "on", with a larger one, at the second.
>>
>> All the best.
>> pc
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