[dev] Apache segfaulting on login

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at mail.curecanti.org>:
>
>> Confirm.  This is *still* related to that uksort() call in IMAP_Sort:: - I
>> thought I had it figured out last night but today I logged in and it is
>> segfaulting again.  I quite honestly am out of ideas as to why this is
>> occurring.  I would hate to scrap uksort() for a hackish workaround 
>> solution if the problem is something in our code.  But my only guess 
>> as to why the
>> segfaults are occurring is there has to be a bug in either uksort() 
>> or the fact that we are calling uksort via a bunch of references and 
>> the fact that it is using a reference itself is tickling some sort 
>> of obscure, memory allocation bug in PHP.  But that is a wild guess.
>
> I think the sorting crashes might be a red herring. I say this 
> because the top
> right menu in IMP uses IMAP_Sort to do folder sorting, and it works fine.
>
> But even if I comment out all sorting my folders screen never loads now. It
> doesn't really crash, but it's obviously in an infinite loop. PHP could
> eventually die in the sorting calls inside the loop, perhaps?
>
> I haven't figured out what's looping yet, but this is where I am right now.

You are probably right - I think I reached the point last night where I went
past the point of productivity and entered the land of frustration.

I'm going to do a trace through IMAP_Tree tonight to try and figure out the
issue.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]