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Bug #21333 Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency?
Submitted: 2003-01-02 04:47 UTC Modified: 2003-01-17 22:14 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 1.0
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (50.0%)
Same OS:1 (50.0%)
From: webmaster at vplabs dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Reproducible crash
PHP Version: 4.3.0 OS: RedHat Linux 8.0
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-01-02 04:47 UTC] webmaster at vplabs dot com 
This error message appears on every script, even in this one:

<? ?>

This is just as it looks at the end of ANY php page:

"Fatal error: Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency? in Unknown on line 0"

Environment:

RedHat Linux8.0 Kernel 2.4.18-14 
Apache 2.0.40
PHP 4.3.0

And this is how I compiled PHP:

./configure i386-redhat-linux \
  --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs \
  --with-config-file-path=/etc \
  --with-gd \
  --with-zlib \
  --enable-ftp \
  --with-mysql \
  --with-informix=/opt/informix \
  --enable-sockets

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 [2003-01-02 04:54 UTC] derick@php.net 
Please run a "make test" after compiling PHP with "make" in the source directory and press "y" if it asks to send the information to the QA site.

Derick
 [2003-01-02 06:08 UTC] webmaster at vplabs dot com 
Unfortunately I can not send the "make test" results because the company where I work has too much restrictive firewall rules (paranoid grade): Form upload limits, no pop3 clients, password protected proxy, ...

All that I can currently tell you is that I have the same problem even with a much simpler PHP configuration:

./configure i386-redhat-linux \
  --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs \
  --with-config-file-path=/etc
 [2003-01-03 02:20 UTC] fiber_halo at yahoo dot com 
I'm seeing the same problem with a very similar config:
RH8.0, php4-STABLE-200301020430 even running the
command line tool gives this result, so I believe this is
independent of the apache version:

echo "<?php ?>" | ./php

Fatal error: Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency? in Unknown on line 0

I did a make test and submitted it to QA.  I hope this helps.
 [2003-01-03 16:48 UTC] fiber_halo at yahoo dot com 
Okay, I solved my own problem with a little help from a comment in bug 21206.  My /etc/php.ini file was pointing to the RedHat-supplied modules in /usr/lib/php4.  I was able to fix the problem by changing the line in /etc/php.ini that says:

extension_dir = /usr/lib/php4

to point to the new location of the modules.  This is where the imap.so, ldap.so, mysql.so, etc are.  Alternatively, you could copy the newly-compiled modules from the compile-directory/modules up to /usr/lib/php4.

Now, mine works perfectly.
 [2003-02-07 04:44 UTC] alex at elhacker dot info 
Me too, with Apache 1.3.27, y php 4.3.0 using php-nuke 6.0

My solution:

editing php.ini:

change this line:
extension_dir = /usr/lib/php4

for this:
extension_dir = /usr/lib/php

best regards from spain (barcelona)

bye
alex
 [2004-01-21 16:50 UTC] mikemoser4 at hotmail dot com 
I rna the make test and received the same error????  Fatal error: Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency? in Unknown on line 0

I have checked and the modules imap.so and ldap.so do appear in the usr/lib/php4 directory and since the installation of PHP was new they cannot be old version. This is on a red hat 8 with php 4.3.1
 [2004-01-29 20:15 UTC] suk at pobox dot com 
This happens with me as well, with a virgin install of phpBB2 on Libranet 2.8.1 (Debian Sarge, Kernel 2.4.21).  Apache 1.3.29.
 [2004-03-02 11:32 UTC] s dot macchi at computime dot it 
RedHat Linux9 
Apache 2.0.41
PHP 4.3.1

I've copied the newly-compiled modules in /etc/php4 and everithing is ok

Bye from Rome

Simone
 
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