PHP Broken

[Ameer Dixit]

Hello Folks,
I've my life miserable by installing the Ghostscript depot on my server. I was unaware that it would also update jpeg-6.0, bison, and flex. After the install, my Apache server gives an error trying to open any type of .php document. In the Apache log, I get the following errors:

/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't find path for shared library: libjvm.sl
/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory
[Wed Nov 10 17:49:04 2004] [error] [client 156.137.10.28] Premature end of scrip
t headers: /opt/apache/lib/cgi-bin/php
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't find path for shared library: libjvm.sl
/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory
[Wed Nov 10 17:49:53 2004] [error] [client 156.137.10.28] Premature end of scrip
t headers: /opt/apache/lib/cgi-bin/php
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't find path for shared library: libjvm.sl
/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory
[Wed Nov 10 18:29:11 2004] [error] [client 156.137.10.28] Premature end of scrip
t headers: /opt/apache/lib/cgi-bin/php

I swremoved the software, but to no avail. I tried running php from the command line, and it crashes the same way (same error) and dies with a core dump.

Anyone run into this?!

Particulars:
Server is an RP5430 running 11i
Apache 1.3.2.0
PHP 4.1

[Brian Markus]

I had a problem that was a lot like this. I ended up compiling them all manually to get them to work. I followed this site as an example:

http://hulan.info/blog/item/install-compile-apache-2-php-4-3-5-and-mysql-under-linux


I hope this helps.

-Brian.

[Ermin Borovac]

My guess is that Java SDK/RTE got removed from your system, since libjvm.sl is Java library.

Check php binary with chatr to see where it is looking for libjvm.sl.

$ chatr /path/to/php/binary

[Ameer Dixit]

Thanks Ermin! I see in the output that there is no specific path to libjvm, so I assume it's using SHLIB_PATH. My /etc/SHLIB_PATH looks like this:

/usr/lib $ cat /etc/SHLIB_PATH
/usr/lib:/etc/opt/resmon/lib

Looking in /usr/lib, I find my libjvm's... and the .1 link file is from the time I, ahem, "upgraded" my system!

/usr/lib $ ll libjvm*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 1613824 Dec 6 2001 libjvm.sl
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 9 Nov 1 15:05 libjvm.sl.1 -> libjvm.sl

However, I renamed my link, and it still doesn't work. Any ideas on what else could have been broken by the installs?
Thank you.

Here's the chatr for the php executable:
/opt/php4/bin $ chatr ./php | more
chatr(warning): dl_header_ext.size != sizeof(dl_header_ext). Please update your
version of the linker.
./php:
shared executable
shared library dynamic path search:
SHLIB_PATH disabled second
embedded path enabled first /opt/zlib/lib:/opt/jpeg-6/lib:/opt/
libpng/lib:/opt/freetype/lib:/opt/gd/lib:/opt/oracle/v7.3.4/lib
shared library list:
dynamic /usr/lib/libpam.1
dynamic /opt/oracle/v7.3.4/lib/libclntsh.1
dynamic /usr/lib/libm.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libcl.2
dynamic /usr/lib/libcma.2
dynamic /opt/gd/lib/libgd.sl
dynamic /opt/freetype/lib/libttf.sl
dynamic /opt/libpng/lib/libpng.sl
dynamic /opt/zlib/lib/libz.sl
dynamic /opt/jpeg-6/lib/libjpeg.sl
dynamic /usr/lib/libnsl.1
dynamic /usr/lib/libc.2
shared library binding:
deferred
global hash table disabled
plabel caching disabled
global hash array size:1103

[Ermin Borovac]

It looks like /opt/php4/bin/php is not linked with libjvm.sl. Maybe one of the libraries it's linked with it is linked with libjvm.sl. Does /opt/php4/bin/php fail when you run it?

Also check output of 'ldd -v /opt/php4/bin/php' to see if libjvm.sl is there.

But really you should check your apache php module with chatr and ldd. It should be in /opt/apache/libexec.

[Ameer Dixit]

Yes, /opt/php4/bin/php fails with the same error I get from my Apache php module (actually not a module, run out of cgi-bin) about libjvm.sl and it dies with a coredump.

OK, so the ldd command gets me really close:

/opt/php4/bin $ ldd -v php

find library=/usr/lib/libc.2; required by php
/usr/lib/libc.2 => /usr/lib/libc.2

find library=/usr/lib/libdld.2; required by /usr/lib/libc.2
/usr/lib/libdld.2 => /usr/lib/libdld.2

find library=/usr/lib/libc.2; required by implicit load
/usr/lib/libc.2 => /usr/lib/libc.2

find library=/usr/lib/libnsl.1; required by php
/usr/lib/libnsl.1 => /usr/lib/libnsl.1

find library=/usr/lib/libxti.2; required by /usr/lib/libnsl.1
/usr/lib/libxti.2 => /usr/lib/libxti.2

find library=/opt/jpeg-6/lib/libjpeg.sl; required by php
/opt/jpeg-6/lib/libjpeg.sl => /opt/zlib/lib/libjpeg.sl

find library=/usr/lib/libc.2; required by /opt/zlib/lib/libjpeg.sl
/usr/lib/libc.2 => /usr/lib/libc.2

find library=../../../build/HP_UX/lib/PA_RISC/server/libjvm.sl; required by /opt/zlib/lib/libjpeg.sl
/usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't find path for shared library: libjvm.sl
/usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory

See the "../../../build directory" it is looking for libjvm.sl? That's bogus and not on the system. Do I have to recompile to remove that or is there a was to fix it with ldd?

[Ermin Borovac · Accepted solution]

One strange thing is that you have library libjpeg.sl in /opt/zlib/lib directory. JPEG library should be in /opt/jpeg-6/lib. Standard zlib install (/opt/zlib) doesn't include JPEG library.

PHP is linked with /opt/jpeg-6/bin/libjpeg.sl but it finds it in /opt/zlib/lib/libjpeg.sl.

I think that /opt/zlib/lib/libjpeg.sl is culprit.

Check with 'swlist -l file | grep libjpeg.sl' to see which package installed this library in /opt/zlib/lib.

You can try moving /opt/zlib/lib/libjpeg.sl out of the way to see if it's going to fix your problem.

[Ameer Dixit]

Removing the link fixed it!!! Thank you very much.

Strange because the libjpeg.sl in zlib is just a link to a real java install... But it broke things?

/opt/zlib/lib $ ll libjpeg*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 39 Oct 28 15:24 libjpeg.sl -> /opt/jav
a1.3/jre/lib/PA_RISC/libjpeg.sl