Re: PEAR segfaulting

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > Typing 'pear segmentation fault' in Google produces tons of responses > so I know I'm not the only one with this issue, but I'll be damned if I > can figure out what the problem is and how to fix it. I rolled my own > PHP 5.3.0 from source. Compilation went fine, no errors. Installation > went without any errors. I can run 'pecl' and install some packages, > but when I try to run 'pear', it segfaults after it downloads a package: > > -------------------- > $ pear install DB > WARNING: "pear/DB" is deprecated in favor of "pear/MDB2" > downloading DB-1.7.13.tgz ... > Starting to download DB-1.7.13.tgz (132,246 bytes) > .............................done: 132,246 bytes > Segmentation fault > -------------------- > > > Running it with -vvv gives me: > > -------------------- > $ pear -vvv install DB > > Warning: file_exists(): Unable to find the wrapper "channel" - did you > forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in > PEAR/Downloader/Package.php on line 1510 > > Warning: is_file(): Unable to find the wrapper "channel" - did you > forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in > PEAR/Downloader/Package.php on line 1520 > > Warning: is_file(): Unable to find the wrapper "channel" - did you > forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in > PEAR/Downloader/Package.php on line 1520 > WARNING: "pear/DB" is deprecated in favor of "pear/MDB2" > pear/DB: Skipping required dependency "pear/PEAR" version 1.9.0, already > installed as version 1.8.0 > Downloading "http://pear.php.net/get/DB-1.7.13.tgz" > downloading DB-1.7.13.tgz ... > Starting to download DB-1.7.13.tgz (132,246 bytes) > .............................done: 132,246 bytes > Segmentation fault > -------------------- > > > So, is this a known issue? Hi, Most likely your machine has a borked zlib library. Try: pear install -Z DB This will download the uncompressed .tar and should work fine. If it does, look to fix your zlib install and re-build PHP. Greg