[wp-testers] Segmentation Fault update

[Adrian Hayter]

"If it doesn't, then I think you would have to hack the core to exclude 
Other News. "

Yeah, this is what I originally wanted help with when I started this 
thread. Can you give me some pointers as to where the Other News 
sections are located in the code? I've obviously tried taking them out 
via the screen options but to no avail.

On 20/01/09 13:31, Will Garcia wrote:
> 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.
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> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Adrian Hayter<adrianhayter at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> On 18/01/09 22:58, Jacob Santos wrote:
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>>> Yeah, you know. PHP code doesn't cause segfaults, PHP extensions do, which
>>> php code uses.
>>>
>>> Jacob Santos
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>>> Adrian Hayter wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>>>> Adrian Hayter wrote:
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>>>>>> 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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