#24666 [Opn->Fbk]: random blank pages for any code on any php page

ID: 24666 Updated by: sniper@php.net Reported By: dhunter at uta dot edu -Status: Open +Status: Feedback Bug Type: Apache related Operating System: Solaris 8 PHP Version: 4.3.2 New Comment: Please try using this CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/php4-STABLE-latest.tar.gz For Windows: http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-08-05 15:54:51] dhunter at uta dot edu I did this prior to submitting the bug. See Description. - Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-08-05 15:10:25] iliaa@php.net Take at a look @ your apache's primary error log file, see if there are any messages from php or reports of crashed apache children. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-07-22 22:26:14] dhunter at uta dot edu I've had php logging on the entire time. That's the reason I haven't been able to track this down. We have been using php extensively for a long time and I've never experienced this before. When a page prints blank the access log entry is: www.uta.edu 64.12.96.203 - - [22/Jul/2003:21:59:00 -0500] "GET /uta/current HTTP/1.1" 200 5 "http://www.uta.edu/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; AOL 8.0; Windows 98; DigExt)" The same page should report 22430 bytes like the following: www.uta.edu 67.66.182.19 - - [22/Jul/2003:22:09:57 -0500] "GET /uta/current HTTP/1.1" 200 22430 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 StumbleUpon/1.73" What could have changed between 4.3.1 and 4.3.2 that could cause this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-07-21 18:03:13] iliaa@php.net Try to enable logging of php errors and see if the php error contains any errors that could explain the cause for the blank pages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-07-20 17:35:31] dhunter at uta dot edu Thanks for the input. I wasn't able to reproduce the error in debug mode. Maybe increased traffic increases the frequency of occurrence. Here is what I have done. I rebuilt all of the web server components, apache, ssl, php, using a newer version of gcc (3.2.3), and I removed some of php's configuration options. As I mentioned I wasn't able to reproduce the problem in apache's debug mode, and gdb didn't have anything to report. The problem continues to occur with the rebuilt components, so I am continuing to use 4.3.1 for now. I'll build the snapshot and see if the error is still present. Summary: - plain html pages are ok. - php pages randomly print blanks regardless of code. - occurs with apache 1.3.27 or 1.3.28, and php 4.3.2 on sparc solaris 8 - php 4.3.1 works great ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/24666 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=24666&edit=1