Mapscript problem with ka-map on Gentoo

[Jaakko Kahkonen]

Hi,

I have still problems with ka-Map/php-mapscipt/PHP/Apache combination.

Video (looping swf, 6.8M, about 4 min.):
<http://geoinfo.fgi.fi/kuva_temp/kamap_problem.html>

Any idea why Apache restart is needed?

-- 
Jaakko

Jaakko Kahkonen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm a little bit lost about using php-mapscript, not sure were the
> origin of problem is.
> 
> Problem exist (at least), when using ka-Map (cvs-version, downloaded
> yesterday with cvs) on Gentoo platform with MapServer-4.10.0 (from
> source). ka-Map starts and works ok, but after some random use it starts
> give missing (empty) tiles, and sometimes just part of tile is missing.
> When I check ka-Map's init.php file with browser, response is empty.
> After that ka-Map is lost, and only solution I currently know is restart
> Apache. Reloading or restarting browser is not enough. After booting
> Apache, response of init.php is ok and ka-Map works for a while. But
> again, after some random use same problmes again. "The application is
> loading" message appears when returning from init.php by browser and
> "Choose your kaMap!" does not find my map-file configurations any more.
> Reloading or restarting browser does not help, response of init.php is
> empty. But restarting Apache helps for a while :-/
> 
> Information about mapscript below (phpinfo):
> 
> MapServer Version: 	
> MapServer version 4.10.0 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP
> OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SWF OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE
> SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER
> SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=GEOS INPUT=EPPL7
> INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
> 
> PHP MapScript Version:
> ($Revision: 1.260 $ $Date: 2006/09/06 16:42:36 $)
> 
> I tested first with php-5.1.6 version, and after downgrading to version
> 5.0.5 and compiling MapServer (and mapscript) again against it, I still
> get the same problem.
> 
> Platform:
> Linux geogrid 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 12 10:54:26 EET
> 2007 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU            5150  @ 2.66GHz GenuineIntel
> GNU/Linux.
> 
> I also tried to use masked mapserver-4.10.0.ebuild (I created own
> PORTDIR_OVERLAY directory for that) without any modifications, just
> enabling amd64 platform. I got it working, but problem still exist with
> ka-Map.
> 
> Any suggestions how to get things to work? Php, Mapserver, ka-Map...?
> Should I compile php with or without gd-external? Does it matter if use
> gd-2.0.33 or gd-2.0.34?
>