Re: Bug#155095: libmm11 1.1.3-7 broken on PowerPC

2002-08-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 07:14 PM, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: The only thing that I can think of is that there is or was a toolchain bug on the powerpc that built the last libmm debs (and the libmm12 deb). If you built them, what versions of the toolchain packages are you running?

Re: Bug#155095: libmm11 1.1.3-7 broken on PowerPC

2002-08-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 06:43 PM, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: I'm a bit tied up with other work now, but I'll see if I can find out what path has assigned to it. I wouldn't worry about it so much if the problem goes away with MMFILE - I do have an upload forcing the shm type to th

Re: Bug#155095: libmm11 1.1.3-7 broken on PowerPC

2002-08-01 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
Great :-) After running a few more tests... It appears that this only happens if the first argument to mm_create() is 0, which should tell it to allocate the largest possible block-o-mem, according to the docs. I added a printf to make sure that the size it wanted to create was reasonable and b

Re: Bug#155095: libmm11 1.1.3-7 broken on PowerPC

2002-08-01 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Mark Brown wrote: > Adding diagnostics to php4 so it'd actually say what went wrong (MM > provides mm_error() giving a text-form error) might be helpful. Here's the error returned by mm_error() when mm_create() fails: mm:core: failed to acquire shared memory segment

Re: Bug#155095: libmm11 1.1.3-7 broken on PowerPC

2002-08-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:43:23AM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > Good idea. MMFILE is probably the safest, although I'm still puzzled as > to why IPCSHM seems to be so flaky. > It proved one thing: that compiling against libmm12 didn't make a > difference :-P I still get the same prob

Re: Bug#155095: libmm11 1.1.3-7 broken on PowerPC

2002-08-01 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Mark Brown wrote: > I'm going to rebuild forcing shm to MMFILE anyway since it'll avoid > problems with the shm method randomly changing depending on which buildd > it gets built on. Good idea. MMFILE is probably the safest, although I'm still puzzled as to why IPCSHM seems

Re: Bug#155095: libmm11 1.1.3-7 broken on PowerPC

2002-08-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:07:02AM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > I just posted a follow-up to that bug report, complete with some > experimentation results. To summarise, either double your shmmax or > recompile libmm11 with --with-shm=MMFILE. Looks like there's a bug > somewhere WRT I

Re: Bug#155095: libmm11 1.1.3-7 broken on PowerPC

2002-08-01 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Mark Brown wrote: > Nothing. PHP keeps on randomly breaking, even with only rebuilds rather > than code changes for the shared library - the same thing happened > between -4 and -6 on alpha with no code changes involved. > > There's a potential issue with the choice of share

Re: Bug#155095: libmm11 1.1.3-7 broken on PowerPC

2002-08-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:48:34PM +0200, Rubin wrote: > I've seen this workaround being tried on the alpha platform but as far > as I can see this does not work for powerpc. What changed between > 1.1.3-6 and 1.1.3-7 that breaks php in this case? Maybe a /usr/doc/libmm Nothing. PHP keeps on

Re: Bug#155095: libmm11 1.1.3-7 broken on PowerPC

2002-08-01 Thread Rubin
Hi, On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 02:01 PM, Mark Brown wrote: reassign 155095 php4 tag 155095 + help merge 155095 136261 thanks On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:34:25PM +0200, Rubin wrote: After a quick apt-get update / apt-get upgrade in the unstable tree, libmm11 got updated from 1.1.3-6 to 1.