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On my dev system with debian unstable (PHP 4.2.1) it works as aspected.

Greets,
Thomas

Here is another hint from Martin Madsen:
"I had exactly the same problem. It has to do with the underlying system.

I'm running TYPO3 on Windows with Apache. Apache crashed each time I tried to enter the Extension Manager, so I tried different versions of Apache... Didn't help. Then I tried different versions of MySQL... Didn't help.

Almost giving up, I tried downgrading the PHP version... and it worked!!! I downgraded the php-version from the newest version of 4.4 to the newest version of 4.3, which currently is 4.3.11. I have no idea why it helped, but something in my version of PHP 4.4 apparently went wrong when loading the Extension Manager."

The comment is from my website http://www.typo3-unleashed.net/singleentry.html?&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=389&tx_ttnews[backPid]=24&cHash=d73f85af6f

Greets,
Thomas

Sounds like an incompatibility with a modern PHP 4.4 version. Seems important to me.

Obvisiously not only with modern PHP versions because it don't work on older Versions (4.1.1) also!?

Greets,
Thomas

Ok, here we go: to track this down, I definitely need more input.

So it is not working for you on PHP
4.1.2
4.1.1
4.4.?
Is the reverse true, is it really only working on 4.3.x? Could more people check this?

Aside from the segfault, why is it not working with 4.1.1? Any error messages? Or the same segfault?

I have the same problem with:

OTHER: TYPO3_VERSION: 4.0rc1
OTHER: PHP_VERSION : 4.2.2
SERVER: SERVER_SOFTW: Apache/1.3.26 (Linux/SuSE) PHP/4.2.2 mod_perl/1.27

and get this in error.log

[Tue Mar 14 07:06:23 2006] [notice] child pid 9404 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

Just in case there could be a connection...

I just filed another bug report concerning Apache crashes under Typo3 RC1:
http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=2947

That one happens under completely different circumstances though.
I takes place when using the clipboard functions out of TV's Page module.

I am reading a lot about Apache crashes since RC1. Could there be a common problem causing them?

Ok, got it - at least for my installation:

There is a bug in PHP up to 4.4.2 that crashes Apache with file related PHP function calls used on HTTP urls like...
file_get_contents($url)
file($url)
fopen($url, 'rb')

See http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36017 for details.

I installed PHP 4.4.3dev and the problem vanished instantly.
Snapshots of PHP dev versions are packaged every three hours:
http://snaps.php.net/

Hope this is the general solution for this problem and not only for my system (allthough I hardly recommend installing dev versions on a production system, as I did now!)...

Cheers,
Jörg.

Seems like we are aware of the problem now, but cannot fix it. I think Karsten can just close it now.

I'm using two version from typo3 on the same machine with same mysql and php- version. In Typo3 3.8.0-dev all works fine, in Typo3 4.0rc2 (before 4.0rc1) i can't open the EM and get the described error ?!

Volker

Smells as if we have only one symptom here but multiple causes!
Damn - that wouldn't make things easier.

After reading the comments and the entry for the mentioned PHP bug I tend to believe this might be the cause. Now here are two questions:

Those of you who experience this error, do you use the Apache2 with the worker model (i.e. multithreaded)? Does it go away when upgrading PHP?

After update to PHP 4.3.4 the EM appear!

Thanks, Volker

Hi Volker,
did you really update to 4.3.4 or to 4.4.3dev?!?

Yes, we need also pdf- support for other php- projects on this system and have a self-compiled php- version running. Here are the recent DEBUG information from Typo3:

OTHER: TYPO3_VERSION: 4.0rc2
OTHER: PHP_VERSION : 4.3.4

Here is the configure command:

./configure' '--prefix=/usr/share' '--datadir=/usr/share/php' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--libdir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include' '--with-_lib=lib' '--with-config-file-path=/etc' '--with-exec-dir=/usr/lib/php/bin' '--disable-debug' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-ctype' '--enable-dbase' '--enable-discard-path' '--enable-exif' '--enable-filepro' '--enable-force-cgi-redirect' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-gd-imgstrttf' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-inline-optimization' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-mbstr-enc-trans' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-memory-limit' '--enable-safe-mode' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-sigchild' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-trans-sid' '--enable-versioning' '--enable-wddx' '--with-bz2' '--with-ftp' '--with-gdbm' '--with-gettext' '--with-gmp' '--with-iodbc' '--with-ldap=yes' '--with-mcal=/usr' '--with-mcrypt' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-ndbm' '--with-pgsql=/usr' '--with-snmp' '--with-openssl' '--with-mm' '--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--with-freetype-dir=yes' '--with-xml' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6' '--with-curl' '--with-t1lib' '--with-ttf' '--with-gd' '--with-java' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-tiff-dir=/usr' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr' '--with-zlib=yes' '--with-cyrus' '--with-pdflib=/usr/local/

Volker