On Tuesday 20 Aug 2013 16:10:59 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> The other day my LAN server had an upgrade to PHP, from 5.4.17 to 5.5. Next
> time apache restarted, it couldn't because it was looking for
> /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp.5.so. The library seemed to be in place,
> but in fact it was a broken symlink to
> /usr/lib/php5.4/apache2/libphp.5.so.
> 
> Running revdep-rebuild failed to find the problem (though it did find a
> problem with cairo, so I didn't mind the time spent). I had to remerge PHP
> myself to fix it.
> 
> Just a little cautionary tale.

I had the same symptom.  Just as I was about to manually remove the old and 
create my own new symlinks, I remembered that these days eselect looks after 
such things.  So I used eselect to declare php-cli, apache2 and some such 
links.  Restarted apache and all worked fine.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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