[wp-testers] Segmentation Fault update

[Will Garcia]

Just wondering if disabling those modules suspected of causing segfaults in
the screen options of the dashboard would help. If it doesn't, then I think
you would have to hack the core to exclude Other News.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Adrian Hayter <adrianhayter at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm fully aware of that, so I was wondering if WordPress was calling on an
> extension when the dashboard is loaded (specifically the RSS loading of
> "Other News"). I guess I'll have to reinstall php if everything else fails.
>
>
> On 18/01/09 22:58, Jacob Santos wrote:
>
>> Yeah, you know. PHP code doesn't cause segfaults, PHP extensions do, which
>> php code uses.
>>
>> Jacob Santos
>>
>>
>> Adrian Hayter wrote:
>>
>>> The memory is working fine, and the seg faults are far from
>>> "unexplainable". They only happen on the server when trying to load the
>>> dashboard, all other websites on the server are running fine. :S
>>>
>>> On 18/01/09 22:05, Christian Magnus Skoglund wrote:
>>>
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>>>> bad memory often causes unexplainable seg faults. Try to run memtest86
>>>> in slow mode. Check also the harddrive for problems with smart.
>>>>
>>>> Adrian Hayter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've spoken about this before and I've tried different methods to solve
>>>>> it. The problem is that apache/php segfaults when I try to access my
>>>>> wp-admin/index.php. I believe the problem lies in the dashboard trying
>>>>> to fetch "Other News" or "Development Updates", because one time I had
>>>>> my error.log open (and reloading every second) and I loaded the page.
>>>>> Whilst the page loaded, the error log reported multiple segfaults, and
>>>>> I
>>>>> saw that the "Other News" section was trying to update itself.
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I remove these sections from being loaded, specifically without
>>>>> having to access the dashboard?
>>>>>
>>>>> -Adrian
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