Re: [cobalt-users] New patch - RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.1-14039.pkg: PHP Update 2.0.1

[Paul Auden <pauden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Si

>I've received notification this evening of the upgrade for RaQ4 factory
>installed PHP.
>
>Now I've already upgraded my PHP using the pkg from pkgmaster.com, does any
>one yet know of any incompatibilities if this official SUN release is
>installed alongside/over the top of the pkgmaster installation? I like to
>keep up to date with my patch installations, but would hate for this
>particular one to go wrong as a result of the pkgmaster pkg.
>
>Anyone done just that yet?
>

Yes I have and had problems. Cobalt posted an addendum on the download
page AFTER I had downloaded and installed. This addendum now states that
the patch updates to PHP4.06.-C4 and overwrites other changes. The
result for me was that PHP pages came up with errors. 

After much searching I did find a page at http://support.sun.com where
Jason from Sun says that doing it destroys some symbolic links and will
cause PHP and Apache not to work !!! The fix is to telnet in and 

ln -s /usr/lib/libgd.so.1.8 /usr/lib/libgd.so.1 

then reboot

This I have done and all appears to be running again but I am not sure
where this leave me with the version of PHP I have :-( 

So don't do it.

Paul

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Paul Auden