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Note Submitter: rggonzalez at iname dot com ---- Notes on installing PHP (3.x.x or 4.x.x) on a RedHat 6.x Linux box using glibc 2.1.x. When you install it as a DSO module for Apache (--with-apxs) with the standard RPM's from RedHat for Apache and MySQL, the httpd daemon dies without giving any error message, and without sending any message to the console. From a comment by Rasmus Ledorf: this is caused "probably due to a glibc-2.1.x bug related to dynamically loading a library linked against pthreads into a binary that isn't linked against pthreads. Try it using --without-mysql and see if it works. If it does then you know it is a mysql-related problem. To fix it you will need the non-threaded mysql client rpm available from www.mysql.com". You can also download the source code for MySQL and recompiled it statically, using this configuration options: --with-client-ldflags=-all-static --with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static You must then re-run the ./configure; make; make install in your PHP source tree to get the PHP shared module working with the new MySQL support. Regards, Rodolfo Gonzalez. rggonzalez@iname.com