How to post useful bug reports

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:15:26 +0000

With the latest two PHP updates, some users reported problems with FPM, with APC, etc… It was about segfaults, problematic init scripts, and so on… But all those comments couldn’t really help me to diagnose the problems in an efficient manner.

Here are the pieces of information that you have to provide to help me fixing your problem :

What is your distribution? (disclaimer : only Debian stable is supported)
What is your architecture? amd64 or i386?
Which exact PHP version are you using? 5.4.x or 5.3.x?
Which SAPI are you using? mod_php? CGI? FPM? Embed?
What’s the full content of your /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d files?
What is the result of dpkg -l 'php*' | grep '^.i' ?
Please provide a textual description of the bug (don’t hesitate to provide some code, the expected result…).
Please provide any modified configuration directive.
Please provide a backtrace, after installing php5-dbg.

Now, some tips to have a stable PHP stack :

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How to post useful bug reports