On Mar 27, 2007, at 22:55, Karl Timmermann wrote:
I'm new to this list but was hoping someone could help me. I recently installed MacPorts 1.4 RC2 and compiled from source. Once installed, I did a port file update, etc before installing apache2 + php5 + mysql5. Everything went pretty smoothly (except for some app named conftest that crashed - see crash report below - I'm not sure it matters.)
I get that too, when compiling gettext on Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro. I wish it wouldn't do that. It has nothing to do with MacPorts; it also happens when compiling gettext outside of MacPorts. I hadn't gotten around to reporting it to the gettext developers yet. If you would like to do so, please do.
So then I followed instructions to copy over a default httpd.conf file, along with a default php.ini file
Good.
and then created the launchd startup item by copying the plist and loading it in.
What do you mean? What did you copy? From where? Installing apache2 should have created the org.macports.apache2.plist launchd item for you. Installing mysql5 +server (which I notice you didn't mention) should have created the org.macports.mysql5.plist launchd item for you.
When I restarted, apache2 starts as expected and I can access my webserver. So far so good.
The problem is that after a while - maybe about an hour of use, every application in OS X starts to die - I get the spinning rainbow of death. Force quitting works, but other apps keep dying, even apps I restart. Even the Finder dies. So I force a reboot and it works for about 2 minutes, and then does the same thing again. To fix this problem, I boot into single user mode and delete the 'org.macports.apache2.plist' file and reboot. Everything then goes back to normal.
I then test to make sure it was that plist file by installing the port again, and same problem shows up again. Any ideas? I'm running on a MacBook Pro (Intel Core 2 Duo).
That's not good. I've never seen such behavior before.