#42856 [NEW]: Timezone database is corrupt

From: php at blazemonger dot com Operating system: Windows 2003 Server x64 PHP version: 5.2.4 PHP Bug Type: Reproducible crash Bug description: Timezone database is corrupt Description: ------------ While stress-testing our MediaWiki installation (hammering it with many page requests to Special:Random), I saw a few of these in the Apache logs: PHP Fatal error: date() [<a href='function.date'>function.date</a>]: Timezone database is corrupt - this should *never* happen! in D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\Parser.php on line 2458 The line is: $ts = time(); /* ... intermediate lines ... */ $localYear = date( 'Y', $ts ); I found http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39993 which looks related but it supposedly has been closed. MediaWiki 1.11.0 PHP: 5.2.4 (apache2handler) MySQL: 5.0.45-community-nt Apache 2.2.6 (patched version for Windows from apachelounge.org) Windows 2003 server Reproduce code: --------------- Happens while stress-testing, hammering the webserver with thousands of requests from 3 simultaneous clients. Expected result: ---------------- Bug should not occur. Actual result: -------------- [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP Fatal error: date() [<a href='function.date'>function.date</a>]: Timezone database is corrupt - this should *never* happen! in D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\Parser.php on line 2458 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP Stack trace: [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 1. {main}() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\index.php:0 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 2. MediaWiki->initialize() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\index.php:89 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 3. MediaWiki->initializeSpecialCases() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\Wiki.php:45 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 4. SpecialPage::executePath() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\Wiki.php:201 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 5. SpecialPage->execute() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\SpecialPage.php:459 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 6. SpecialPage->setHeaders() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\SpecialPage.php:640 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 7. OutputPage->setPageTitle() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\SpecialPage.php:628 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 8. wfMsg() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\OutputPage.php:220 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 9. wfMsgReal() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\GlobalFunctions.php:326 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 10. wfMsgGetKey() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\GlobalFunctions.php:421 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 11. MessageCache->get() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\GlobalFunctions.php:467 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 12. MessageCache->transform() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\MessageCache.php:505 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 13. Parser->transformMsg() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\MessageCache.php:589 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 14. Parser->replaceVariables() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\Parser.php:3967 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 15. Parser->replace_callback() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\Parser.php:2860 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 16. call_user_func() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\Parser.php:2759 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 17. Parser->braceSubstitution() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\Parser.php:0 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 18. Parser->variableSubstitution() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\Parser.php:2968 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 19. Parser->getVariableValue() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\Parser.php:2892 [Thu Oct 04 10:57:46 2007] [error] [client 10.95.36.96] PHP 20. date() D:\\mediawiki\\w\\includes\\Parser.php:2458 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=42856&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=42856&r=mysqlcfg