Running Drupal 4.5 on PHP5 and MySQL just crashes

By carlmcdade on 3 Oct 2004 at 08:43 UTC

I have installed 4.5 four times now. Everytime a clean install. Things work great for a while but then using the admin and settings just hangs the browser and casues Drupal to corrupt and crash. There are no errors and reseting MySQL does not help. Going to the front page you see the front page content but there is no login section and anything requiring the querystring just hangs the browser.

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Btw

carlmcdade commented 3 October 2004 at 08:44

You cannot install into the root of the website because an extra / is added to the module path and causes a critical error.

Carl McDade
Information Technology Consult
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Another bug

carlmcdade commented 8 October 2004 at 14:16

This is the 14th install on three different sites. Drupal 4.5 just times out the script process when there are too many admin tasks or anything to to with a table join in MySQL. The timeout happens the script fails and there is no roll back. The only thing that helps is starting over from scratch. A real pain in the butt.

Carl McDade
Information Technology Consult
Team Macromedia
www.heroforhire.net

Slash

Steven commented 8 October 2004 at 16:41

Did you leave out the trailing slash from $base_url, as conf.php tells you to?

Crash

Dries commented 8 October 2004 at 14:36

Drupal itself can't crash. PHP, Apache and MySQL can crash though. Have you tried using a different version of PHP, Apache or MySQL?

I have been running Drupal CV

killes@www.drop.org commented 8 October 2004 at 14:40

I have been running Drupal CVS with PHP 5 and MySQL for some time now and never observed a crash. I'd check my MySQL and Apache logs for anything obvious.

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It does not hang up unless i

carlmcdade commented 8 October 2004 at 15:28

It does not hang up unless i try to create a super user. I create a role, turn on all the mods, then when trying to give admin rights to any single or all of the mods the PHP script times out and hangs up all the tables. MySQL repair does not work, cache removall does not work. The only choice is to delete the tables from the database and start over.

I don't have a choice of PHP installs or MySQL this is on a web host.
The logs show nothing except a 404.

Carl McDade
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One by one

carlmcdade commented 8 October 2004 at 19:52

Well it is definately one or several mods that are the problem. I have been doing things one at a time and hoping that I don't land on a mine. I have almost gotten the configuration I need but I am sweating buckets from nervousness. The next module could be the one that blows up in my face.

Somebody please fix this :(

Carl McDade
Information Technology Consult
Team Macromedia
www.heroforhire.net