I am running on that server Entrp. Oracle10g (installed on the server )on SLES 9 SUSE Linux with apache_1.3.35/ php-4.4.2 Web visitors retrieve data<http://www.codecomments.com/PHP_Programming/message1053354.html#>from the web by php calls through oci cobnnection from 10g release2 PHP is configured with the following parameters './configure' '--prefix=/opt/oracle/php' '--with-apxs=/opt/oracle/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-config-file-path=/opt/oracle/apache/conf' '--enable-safe-mode' '--enable-session' '--with-oci8=/opt/oracle/product/10gR2' '--enable-sigchild' '--with-zlib-dir' '--with-unixODBC=shared,/usr' Apache is configured ./configure --enable-module=so --prefix=$HOME/apache --with-port=XXXX I found in the apache<http://www.webservertalk.com/Apache_Server_configuration_support_54.htm>error log the following entries [Mon Sep 11 10:47:32 2006] [notice] child pid 6758 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /opt/oracle/apache [Mon Sep 11 10:49:21 2006] [notice] child pid 7287 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /opt/oracle/apache [Mon Sep 11 10:53:45 2006] [notice] child pid 7387 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /opt/oracle/apache [Mon Sep 11 10:53:46 2006] [notice] child pid 7276 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /opt/oracle/apache [Mon Sep 11 10:56:16 2006] [notice] child pid 7334 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /opt/oracle/apache [Mon Sep 11 10:59:21 2006] [notice] child pid 8138 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /opt/oracle/apache [Mon Sep 11 11:01:08 2006] [notice] child pid 6883 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /opt/oracle/apache [Mon Sep 11 11:06:04 2006] [notice] child pid 8102 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /opt/oracle/apache [Mon Sep 11 11:07:22 2006] [notice] child pid 8392 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /opt/oracle/apache [Mon Sep 11 11:07:22 2006] [notice] child pid 8652 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /opt/oracle/apache [Mon Sep 11 11:16:18 2006] [notice] child pid 8915 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /opt/oracle/apache --- i have done gdb this mu output: oracle@king:~/apache/bin> gdb ~/apache/bin/httpd ~/apache/core GNU gdb 6.3 Copyright 2004 Free Software<http://www.codecomments.com/PHP_Programming/message1053354.html#>Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies<http://www.codecomments.com/PHP_Programming/message1053354.html#>of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying<http://www.codecomments.com/PHP_Programming/message1053354.html#>" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `/opt/oracle/apache/bin/httpd'. Program <http://www.codecomments.com/PHP_Programming/message1053354.html#>terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. warning: current_sos: Can't read pathname for load map<http://www.codecomments.com/PHP_Programming/message1053354.html#>: Input/output error Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libInternalSymbols.so...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libInternalSymbols.so Reading symbols from /lib/i686/libm.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/libm.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypt.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libcrypt.so.1 Reading symbols from /opt/oracle/product/10gR2/lib/libexpat.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /opt/oracle/product/10gR2/lib/libexpat.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/i686/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2 Reading symbols from /opt/oracle/apache/libexec/libphp4.so...done. Loaded symbols for /opt/oracle/apache/libexec/libphp4.so Reading symbols from /lib/libz.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libz.so.1 Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libresolv.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1 Reading symbols from /opt/oracle/product/10gR2/lib/libclntsh.so.10.1...done. Loaded symbols for /opt/oracle/product/10gR2/lib/libclntsh.so.10.1 Reading symbols from /opt/oracle/product/10gR2/lib/libnnz10.so...done. Loaded symbols for /opt/oracle/product/10gR2/lib/libnnz10.so #0 zend_hash_find (ht=0x0, arKey=0x81c38bc "resp_charset", nKeyLength=13, pData=0xbfffae74) at /opt/oracle/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_hash.h:196 196 while (arKey < arEnd) { (gdb) bt #0 zend_hash_find (ht=0x0, arKey=0x81c38bc "resp_charset", nKeyLength=13, pData=0xbfffae74) at /opt/oracle/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_hash.h:196 #1 0x40306f22 in zend_fetch_var_address (opline=0x81f6ed0, Ts=0xbfffaea0, type=1) at /opt/oracle/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_execute.c:594 #2 0x4030aa8b in execute (op_array=0x8199944) at /opt/oracle/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_execute.c:1286 #3 0x4030eb04 in execute (op_array=0x819914c) at /opt/oracle/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_execute.c:1719 #4 0x4030eb04 in execute (op_array=0x8259544) at /opt/oracle/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend_execute.c:1719 #5 0x402fbfde in zend_execute_scripts (type=8, retval=0x0, file_count=3) at /opt/oracle/php-4.4.2/Zend/zend.c:934 #6 0x402d4e1a in php_execute_script (primary_file=0xbfffea84) at /opt/oracle/php-4.4.2/main/main.c:1753 #7 0x4031487a in apache_php_module_main (r=0x813b23c, display_source_mode=0) at /opt/oracle/php-4.4.2/sapi/apache/sapi_apache.c:54 #8 0x40315343 in send_php (r=0x813b23c, display_source_mode=0, filename=0x0) at /opt/oracle/php-4.4.2/sapi/apache/mod_php4.c:627 #9 0x40315396 in send_parsed_php (r=0x813b23c) at /opt/oracle/php-4.4.2/sapi/apache/mod_php4.c:642 #10 0x0806d249 in ap_invoke_handler () #11 0x08084e6c in process_request_internal () #12 0x08084ee2 in ap_process_request () #13 0x0807aef0 in child_main () #14 0x0807b16a in make_child () #15 0x0807b518 in perform_idle_server_maintenance () #16 0x0807bb8c in standalone_main () #17 0x0807c1dc in main () (gdb) I think OCI8 calls through php causes a Segmentation Fault (11) error? any help to resolve this issue??? -- Communications/Network and Systems Engineer