Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=58925&edit=1
ID: 58925
Comment by: areddan at silverarm dot com
Reported by: glenn dot schmidt at deakin dot edu dot au
Summary: No error information available when
php_oci_create_env fails
Status: Closed
Type: Bug
Package: *General Issues
Operating System: Any
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Assigned To: sixd
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
about 90 , not 9
Previous Comments:
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[2011-11-08 09:18:27] areddan at silverarm dot com
Server load about 9 scripts open during the minute of the corruption, each one connected to the db,
lasting approx 1 second each.
its PHP Version 5.1.4
--with-oci8=instantclient,/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/lib,/usr/include/oracle/10.2.0.4/client'
OCI8 Support enabled
Revision $Revision: 1.269.2.16 $
Active Persistent Connections 0
Active Connections 0
Oracle Instant Client Version 10.2
oci8.default_prefetch 10 10
oci8.max_persistent -1 -1
oci8.old_oci_close_semantics 0 0
oci8.persistent_timeout -1 -1
oci8.ping_interval 60 60
oci8.privileged_connect Off Off
oci8.statement_cache_size 20 20
No persistant connections are being made and every so often, we get a fail to connect (during busy
times) resulting in the following in php error log.
[03-Nov-2011 17:11:22] PHP Warning: ocilogon() [<a
href='function.ocilogon'>function.ocilogon</a>]: OCIEnvNlsCreate() failed. There
is something wrong with your system - please check that LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes the directory with
Oracle Instant Client libraries in /disk1/********/db_class.php on line 17
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[2011-11-07 20:19:01] sixd@php.net
This bug has been fixed in SVN.
Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
For Windows:
http://windows.php.net/snapshots/
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.
Code to print the Oracle error message has been added. It may help but from
previous experience I know it's not feasible to expect Oracle libraries to
identify the real root causes of misconfigured systems. So, if the root cause is
some memory corruption from any subsystem involved, I wouldn't expect the
messages to be reliable.
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[2011-11-07 20:10:34] sixd@php.net
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of sixd
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=318888
Log: Improve OCI8 NLS env creation error messages (#58925)
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[2011-11-07 19:21:56] sixd@php.net
It's a pity there is no useful information in this bug about the versions and
environments this is seen on. The root problem could be anywhere (including
webserver memory corruption). However since the failure is coming from the
environment setup, it's worth triple-checking the OCI8 environment is set
correctly. Make sure scripts don't use setenv() to set Oracle environment
variables.
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[2011-11-07 11:13:58] areddan at silverarm dot com
Does anyone have a solution / update to this one ? I', experiencing similar issues on a clients
site, and again its not repeatable.
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