[wp-testers] Strange issue

[Shelly]

Hey all,

I'm at the end of my search, and I've exhausted everything I can to  
find the answer to this.

About 2 weeks ago, I was working on a WordPress site.  Everything was  
going fine, and then the Friday of Labor Day weekend, suddenly we were  
unable to edit posts, nor create new ones.  This also went for  
categories, links and Pages as well.  We could do nothing.  The stuff  
that's there is there, and there's no adding to it, nor editing it.   
(We get an error in the newer installs that says "An unidentified  
error has occurred." in the sidebar of the admin panel.)

I've tried many things to fix this - of course the first being that I  
reverted back to the way it was before I started working on it - to no  
avail.  Disabled all plugins, reverted to the default theme - same  
problem.  Deleted the installation, and reinstalled fresh files.   
Nothing.  Upgraded to 2.6.1 - no change.  I kept checking error logs,  
and they were clean as a whistle.  I finally came across one that  
showed more "in depth" error messages on the server, and finally got a  
single error message.

[30-Aug-2008 09:30:25] PHP Warning:  Module 'ffmpeg' already loaded in  
Unknown on line 0
[30-Aug-2008 09:30:25] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load  
dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non- 
zts-20060613//usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ 
ffmpeg.so' - /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613// 
usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ffmpeg.so:  
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown  
on line 0

I sent this info to the host, but since it was labor day weekend, I  
didn't expect a response.  So I went in search of other similar issues.

I've repaired database tables to no avail, and finally, as my last  
step today, a created an entirely new database with a new user, and  
made a completely new installation.  Same problem.  I created a second  
new database and user, and installed 2.5...then again with 2.3.3, and  
a third time with 2.0.10.  ALL of them have the same problem.  No  
posting, no creating anything, no editing.

For the record, I'm not talking theme files or file permission issues  
either.  And if it helps, the server is Linux, running MySQL 4.1.22,  
Apache 2.0.63 and PHP 5.2.6.  A funny note though - everything is  
unlimited - bandwidth, email accounts, domain names, FTP accounts, and  
databases, etc., are all set to "infinity" as the max.  That's  
something odd I've never noticed before, but I don't know if that  
would have anything to do with this.

I've posted to the WP forum with no response, as well as a couple of  
other lists I'm on that have some WP gurus.  When I posted to those  
two lists, I got three responses that they were experiencing the same  
issue - but no one can find a solution.

The host got back to me today - they've moved the ffmpeg (although,  
like me, they don't understand what that would have to do with  
wordpress at all), they removed it as well (and of course now we get  
an error that ffmpeg can't be found), trying all kinds of things  
trying to figure out what's going on, and restarted Apache for me.   
Still nothing.  No postie-love, not edity-love, no creating anything- 
love.  New installations don't do squat - 'cept now I have a new  
installation of WordPress that I cannot use.

So now I'm turning to you all - I have no idea what to do here.  I've  
been working on this site with no problem for the last 5 months (it's  
a pro-bono site, for any of you that think I'm getting paid for this -  
I'm not), and then suddenly poof - it appears he may have to go as far  
as to try to get a new host and have all of this work go down the  
drain.  Which seems so bizarre, because WordPress is the *only*  
application on the server that's having this problem.  i don't know if  
this is a WP bug, or something with the server, or what - but no one  
seems to know what to do.

if *anyone* has *any* ideas, or links, or anything that could point me  
towards a solution, I'd really appreciate it.  Even the host tech guys  
are stumped, and I can say from experience that they aren't the kind  
of guys who are easily stumped.  So if anyone has any little inkling  
of what I could look for, or where i could go to try and find the  
solution, that would be great.

Thanks!

~Shelly