Paul Iadonisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>   I forgot to mention that I did do a Google search on 'sablotron expat apache
> segfault' and found lots of references to this exact type of problem. The
> results seem to universally point to multiple copies of the expat processor due
> to the fact that many products (apache included) include their own copy
> of expat.  

You need to verify that you have *one* *consistant* version of expat
on your system.

> Depending on the version, whether it's linked statically or
> dynamically and anything else you are using that needs expat, there can be
> serious conflicts.  It has something to do with instantiating the parser
> multiple times and then the code that makes the call to the parser doesn't
> know which instance to call.  Something like that.

Har!  I wonder if they use yacc for their parser...

>   Anyhow, based on what I read, it appears that I've got everything set right.
> Red Hat's apache 1.3.22 update links dynamically to the external expat.  So
> does the 0.71 rpm of sablotron from the Ginger Alliance.  Even the
> perl-XML-Parser is linked dynamically, though we don't use that.  The only
> thing I can think of that might not be is php (which we use a small bit of),
> but we don't even use any of the XML stuff in php and I don't think we've
> even reached the point where php would be loaded.  I may be wrong, though,
> as I know little about the inner workings of apache.


Do you happen to end up with a file named "core" anywhere as a result
of this problem?

Are there any references to LD_LIBRARY_PATH anywhere in this mix?

--kevin
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