[cobalt-developers] php4 / raq3 / httpd dies on startup

[cpaul <inc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

k - spent the last 20 hours on this and i've read every post, every
article, compiled, decompiled, installed, uninstalled and now i am
officially grumpy that cobalt doesn't supply a pkg to upgrade:

  httpd to latest vers
  mysql to latest vers
  php4 from php3

in one fell swoop.  even tho i'd rather just rpm's.

but .. even then .. why can't i make httpd run after installing php4?

* i upgraded mysql to the latest version.

* i installed php4.

* i run apache - it dies on startup, with no errors.

even a strace on httpd reveals nothing.


so then i tried to compile httpd from eric's httpd upgrade mini-howto,
but still experience the same problem.  no matter what i do, httpd just
dies on startup.

i researched and found that there are probs with pthreads?  and checked
and mysql supply a non-threaded client library to get around this problem.
i have this non-threaded client installed, but still - httpd dies on startup?


can anybody shed some light?  


thanks - chris paul