Re: [bug] With 4.3, caused major crash

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Hello Michael,

> The first time I updated my Drupal 4.2 to 4.3, all my links on the
> site suddenly died.  Later on, after flushing out my cache, turns out
> the entire site was no longer accessible.  After a few days trying to
> figure out the problem on the support list, I finally changed a
> setting in .htaccess which made my site accessible anew.  That is I
> turned on or off php_value allow_call_time_pass_reference (I forget
> if the problem was when it was on or off).

Then there is already a problem with your installation of the core Drupal.
Did you replace all core files and ran update.php?
Changing allow_call_time_pass_reference should only cause warnings and not a
fatal error that will "freeze" your site.

> Then, I decided to test image.module for Drupal 4.3.  I forget was
> the error message was, but my site went totally dead again.  I
> deleted the module... the site remains dead.  Tried different
> .htaccess settings...

Try to get your site running with only the default core module activated.
Look into your apache logs to see if a php error could be the cause of your
problem and points to any module or configuration problem.

> Possible/relevant hint: A day after, I tried image.module for Drupal
> 4.2 on my good site (which uses 4.2).  I get the following error even
> though I desactivated the image.module!  How to I fix this bug (see
> below)?
>
> Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument
> passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify
> the declaration of getimagesize(). If you would like to enable
> call-time pass-by-reference, you can set
> allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However,
> future versions may not support this any longer. in
> [...]/html/modules/image.module on line 1729

This has been fixed in the 4.2.0 branch of image.module. But this warning
never caused my test site to stop.

Bruno

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