New eaccelerator packages for Debian Etch

My packages of eaccelerator for Etch caused me a problem last night when I pulled in a new security fix for PHP5 and they all stopped working so I've built some new ones against the new PHP5.

I've also added a few enhancements:

  • Create the /var/cache/eaccelerator directory with appropriate permissions
  • Install a default basic configuration in /etc/php5/conf.d/php5-eaccelerator.
  • Clean out old cache files from /var/cache/eaccelerator

The packages are available in my Debian repository built for i386 and for amd64, with a apt sources line like:

deb http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian etch awm

The repository is signed with my private key, 0x8f068012, which is fairly well-connected and which you can get from subkeys.pgp.net and many other places.

Enjoy!

php5 + eaccelerator + grsec

Submitted by Anoisymouse on 7 May 2007 - 12:24pm.

Are you using grsec ?

Currently I am not able to get eaccelerator working with php5 and grsec whereas it works fine with php4.

'grsec: From x.x.x.x: denied resource overstep by requesting 4096 for RLIMIT_CORE against limit 0 for /usr/bin/php5-cgi [...]'

php5 + eaccelerator - grsec

Submitted by andrew on 7 May 2007 - 1:24pm.

No, I am not using grsec.

I also don't believe that eaccelerator works with PHP5 CGI (from the eaccelerator FAQ), but perhaps you are using fastcgi, which should be OK? Or perhaps that FAQ is out of date.

Cheers,
Andrew McMillan.

php5 + eaccelerator - grsec

Submitted by Anoisymouse on 7 May 2007 - 7:49pm.

I am using fastcgi and it works on another server with an older php5 version ( 5.1.6-3 backported from Testing/Etch on a server running Sarge ), and surprisingly it doesn't works on Stable/Etch's php5 version ( 5.2.0-8+etch3 ) on a server running Etch.

I just wondered if your problem was due to grsec and not just a version mismatch ;)

Cheers,
Sylvain Rochet

Hi, Why don't you upload

Submitted by Anoisymouse on 8 May 2007 - 12:01am.

Hi,

Why don't you upload this to the debian archive ? I guess there's a lissue license but... No way to provide a eaccelerator-source package ?

Upload to Debian?

Submitted by andrew on 8 May 2007 - 12:40am.

I believe that there is a license issue of some kind with something in the heritage of eaccelerator. I could be wrong, and when I looked on the website earlier today there was just a "GPL" with no other complicated stuff. GPL is incompatible with the PHP license though, so perhaps that is the problem? I guess I should ask on Debian Legal, but I haven't the energy :-)

I will be at Debconf in another five weeks so I'll try and discuss it with people there and see if it can't be uploaded at some point while I'm there. I need to uploard RSCDS into Debian as well :-)

Meanwhile, there are source packages in my archive too:

deb-src http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian etch awm

should work, OK, I think.

Cheers,
Andrew.

A PHP5 security update on

Submitted by Anoisymouse (not verified) on 21 May 2007 - 8:14pm.

A PHP5 security update on 5/21 has broken eAccelerator. It says that the current version was built for etch3 and I have etch 4. I just did an apt-get upgrade to get the latest version of php5.

Version: 5.2.0-8+etch4 to be

Submitted by Anoisymouse (not verified) on 21 May 2007 - 8:27pm.

Version: 5.2.0-8+etch4 to be exact.

New eaccelerator 0.9.5.1-1+etch4 released

Submitted by andrew on 22 May 2007 - 12:43am.

I have also added a dependency against libapache-mod-php5 (= 5.2.0-8+etch4) so that in future the versions that are installed are forced to stay in step.

Cheers,
Andrew McMillan.

I run Debian/Lenny and would

Submitted by Dieter Zinke (not verified) on 6 June 2007 - 9:14am.

I run Debian/Lenny and would like to install the php5-eaccelerator. In my sources.list i added this line:

deb http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian etch awm

I see from your repository that you supply different versions of the eaccelerator. What version would i install

[ ] php5-eaccelerator_0.9.5.1-2+etch4_i386.deb
[ ] php5-eaccelerator_0.9.5.1-1+etch4_i386.deb
[ ] php5-eaccelerator_0.9.5.1-0+etch4_i386.deb
[ ] php5-eaccelerator_0.9.5.1-0_i386.deb
[ ] php5-eaccelerator_0.9.5-4_i386.deb
[ ] php5-eaccelerator_0.9.5-3_i386.deb

Regards
Dieter

Building your own eaccelerator packages from my sources

Submitted by andrew on 6 June 2007 - 12:10pm.

If you're running something other than Etch, and you want to use my eAccelerator packages you should be able to fetch the source packages. First add a line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb-src http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian etch awm

After doing an apt-get update you should be able to apt-get --build source php5-eacclerator. If this is the first time you have done it, you may need to fetch the build dependencies as well. You can do this with apt-get build-dep php5-eacclerator.

That should create a php5-eaccelerator .deb which you can install with dpkg -i <filename.deb>

Regards,
Andrew McMillan.

Reduild against the latest php5 security updates ?

Submitted by fraggle (not verified) on 10 July 2007 - 2:17am.

Thks for your packaging work !

May i ask for a rebuild against the latest debian etch php5 security updates ? I've done it myself but for other people just willing to use your etch binary repo, might be a good idea to provide working binary php5 with latest updates.

Thks again.

Cheers.

Needing another rebuild ...

Submitted by fraggle (not verified) on 5 January 2008 - 2:35pm.

May i ask for another rebuild against the latest php5 security update ? ;-)

Cheers.

Will rebuild in a couple of days...

Submitted by andrew on 12 July 2007 - 3:48am.

Hi,

I'm travelling at the moment I'll be back home in a couple of days and will rebuild then.

Cheers,
Andrew.

Thanks!

Submitted by Brad (not verified) on 17 August 2007 - 4:25am.

Thanks for providing these packages. Worked like a charm!

Problem with apt-get upgrade

Submitted by Gilbert (not verified) on 5 January 2008 - 11:03am.

There is some problems with apt-get upgrade:

Debian Etch:

#apt-get upgrade
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
libapache-mod-php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-common php5-curl php5-gd php5-mysql
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

#apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
php5-eaccelerator
The following packages will be upgraded:
libapache-mod-php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-common php5-curl php5-gd php5-mysql

Upgraded to 0.9.5.2 and rebuilt with -etch9

Submitted by andrew on 6 January 2008 - 12:19pm.

Thanks for pointing out that this needed a rebuild.

I've done it now (for i386) and the source packages should be there for anyone who wants to build it for amd64. Here's the source URL:

deb-src http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian etch awm

Cheers,
Andrew McMillan.

Working fine, thanks.

Submitted by Gilbert (not verified) on 7 January 2008 - 10:01am.

Working fine, thanks. Good work.

Another upgrade?

Submitted by henno (not verified) on 26 January 2008 - 3:04pm.

# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
libapache2-mod-php5 libpq-dev libpq4 php-pear php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-mysql

# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
php5-eaccelerator
The following packages will be upgraded:
libapache2-mod-php5 libpq-dev libpq4 php-pear php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-mysql

Now rebuilt with -etch10

Submitted by andrew on 26 January 2008 - 10:50pm.

And this time I managed to find an amd64 build machine, so there are amd64 packages of that too.

Just as well you caught me before I headed off to LCA :-)

Cheers,
Andrew McMillan.

thanks for this

Submitted by mutante (not verified) on 4 March 2008 - 8:19am.

came in very handy after a system upgrade that left me with broken apache due to the old packages, i added your repository and it worked smoothly. nice!

DAViCal still alive?

Submitted by Mark Edwards (not verified) on 11 March 2008 - 10:17pm.

I loaded your repository up and tried to install DAViCal on a Debian 4.0 machine. No package called davical, only the old name -- rscds. And I got nothing but errors trying to follow the installation instructions.

Is this project still happening? I hope so, because running Darwin Calendar Server on Debian seems a little dicey at the moment.

Thanks.

DAViCal aliveness

Submitted by andrew on 12 March 2008 - 11:57am.

Very much so, although I definitely fucked up the 0.9.4 release from an installability perspective. I'll get a new release out to resolve those issues in the next few days.

Regards,
Andrew McMillan.

hi andrew, I installed

Submitted by Damir (not verified) on 14 March 2008 - 5:43am.

hi andrew,
I installed davical on a fedora 7 and after some little trouble by using 2 different servers (1 for sql and 1 for apache), I had a working setup.
or maybe I just imagined it, because I was able to connect 1 time with thunderbird, but after this little success I was unable to use it anymore.
I tried to restart from scratch, deleting everything but I'm unable to have a working setup anymore.
In all cases and different clients I obtain only the error:

The resource at http://xxxx/caldav.php/damir/home/ is either not a DAV collection or not available

any idea ?

thanks
bye
Damir

Appropriate places for DAViCal discussions

Submitted by andrew on 14 March 2008 - 7:19am.

Hi,

For general help on DAViCal see:
http://wiki.davical.org/w/Getting_Help

The place to have discussions about DAViCal are (in order of preference):

- The IRC channel - #davical on irc.oftc.net
- The Mailing List
- The sourceforge forums & bug trackers

The error message you are getting could occur for many reasons. Possibly you have mod_dav enabled (you shouldn't). You should look in the Apache error log (PHP error log) for more information.

Thanks,
Andrew McMillan.

Eaccelerator 0.9.5.3

Submitted by CloneVince (not verified) on 12 August 2008 - 11:00pm.

Can we hav any chance to see a 0.9.5.3 version in your repository ?

Perhaps, can you make a lenny version plz ?
Because in september, lenny will be stable.

Thx for your work.

CloneVince

eAccelerator 0.9.5.3 for Debian Lenny

Submitted by Henrik (not verified) on 4 October 2008 - 9:48am.

I make an eAccelerator 0.9.5.3 + PHP 5.2.6-4 package for Debian Lenny, based on Andrew's work.

Binaries and source here: http://henrik.synth.no/deb/.
Build instructions here: http://neu242.livejournal.com/25626.html

etch repository problem?

Submitted by Anoisymouse (not verified) on 19 October 2008 - 8:00am.

Just ran an apt-get update on etch...getting the following:

Reading package lists... Done
W: Conflicting distribution: http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz etch Release (expected etch but got awm)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

Worked fine last month, no changes to my sources - still configured as follows:

deb http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian etch awm

Suggestions?

Thanks,

Bill

Damn

Submitted by andrew on 20 October 2008 - 7:17pm.

It's probably sulking because I don't run Etch anywhere any longer :-(

As a result I don't have a machine I can use to debug this, unless I specifically set up an Etch chroot or something...

If I get a chance I'll have a look. What I really need to look at is the whole workflow I have for building all of my repositories, which I think could be done a lot smarter...

Any recommendations for kick-ass approaches to repository building will be gratefully received. Especially if they involve fewer than 10 lines of code. Extra marks for supplying the code... :-)

Cheers,
Andrew.

eAccelerator

Submitted by Anoisymouse (not verified) on 24 October 2008 - 3:39am.

Hi,

does this mean that there will be no new eAccelerator packages for Etch?

The eAccelerator package is currently blocking a php5 security update (5.2.0-8+etch13).

Regards,
Johannes

Building the eAccelerator packages

Submitted by andrew on 24 October 2008 - 7:05am.

Hi Johannes,

I've got source packages for it, which can be built on Etch as follows:

Add this source URL to your apt/sources.list:

deb-src http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian lenny awm

Then run the following commands:

apt-get update
apt-get build-dep php5-eaccelerator
apt-get --build source php5-eaccelerator

That should build you an updated package for Etch which you can then install with dpkg -i ...

Regards,
Andrew.

eAccelerator

Submitted by Anoisymouse (not verified) on 24 October 2008 - 7:34pm.

Hi Andrew,

this worked. Thank you.

Regards,
Johannes

apt-get --build source

Submitted by Anoisymouse (not verified) on 29 October 2008 - 4:14am.

apt-get --build source php5-eacclerator

Minor typo - should be:

apt-get --build source php5-eaccelerator

But that worked for me as well - thanks.

corrected

Submitted by andrew on 29 October 2008 - 8:56am.

Thanks. I've corrected the typo now.

Thanks

Submitted by Christoph (not verified) on 30 October 2008 - 11:31pm.

Thanks for your packages.
I would prefer using binary packages, but source is working fine, too.

Errors on Etch

Submitted by Anoisymouse (not verified) on 2 November 2008 - 8:56am.

Well...after building from source as instructed, things appeared to be working. But something got borked along the way.

Just received reports from my Drupal5 users - searches are now failing. A simple browser window pops up, stating "an error as occurred" - not much help.

I'm searching in the usual places, and the only indicator I found, was in the Apache error log - bunches of these, which coincide with searches:

[Sat Nov 01 15:30:28 2008] [notice] child pid 18513 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

Removing php5-eaccelerator resolves the issue, but that's obviously not ideal.

I'm a bit out of my league here - any troubleshooting tips?

Etch, fully updated.

Segfaults

Submitted by Marki (not verified) on 16 April 2009 - 9:21pm.

Sometimes you need to empty the eacc cache. I had similar problems, lot of segfaults and deleting everything from /var/cache/eaccelerator helped.

binaries for php5*eth13

Submitted by Tomas Zanka (not verified) on 2 November 2008 - 12:37pm.

if it's that easy, can you pleeease create and publish the .deb file (for patched php5...eth13) for us, who does not have compilers and such things installed on servers we manage? :-)

thank you a lot for your time!

Tom

Sorry, no I can't

Submitted by andrew on 2 November 2008 - 7:05pm.

Sorry, but since I left Catalyst I no longer have access to a range of build servers on different releases, and am just left with the one server running Lenny, and my laptop, running Sid.

Cheers,
Andrew.

Building the eAccelerator packages

Submitted by stelio (not verified) on 21 November 2008 - 2:03am.

Hi Andrew,
thanks for your debian packages.

I've downloaded and installed the packages as mentioned above.
But it seems the source is not 9.5.3 , because I've now problems with the eaccelerator (Fatal error: Cannot access protected property).
I'm pretty sure this error is already fixed in version 9.5.1.

Cheers,
stelio

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