Re: pear list and pear update Problems

Mark Boland wrote: > I'm running a RHEL 4.2 system and I'm having a strange problem with > pear. It was originally installed on the system when it was RHEL 4.1. > PEAR was updated to meet a couple of web application (FogBugz - a bug > tracker) requirements. > > The system has been subsequently updated to 4.2 and now "pear list" > fails with the error: > > PHP Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: > pear_command_registry-init in /usr/share/pear/PEAR/Command.php on line 271 > > > The same error is returned when you try a "pear update". pear was > working before FogBugz was installed, but I can't prove that it was > still working after the PEAR update or after fog bugz installation. But > it seems like the registry is /usr/share/pear/.registry is some how > corrupted. > > Has anyone seen this problem before? If so, how did you fix it? First of all, this is due to criminally shoddy re-packaging of PEAR by Redhat. Please report this bug to them, as you are probably the 30th user to report this problem. Now, to fix it, rm /usr/share/pear/PEAR/Command/*-init.php. Then, you'll want to upgrade PEAR - all versions prior to 1.4.2 have a security hole. Greg