SOLVED EasyApache 4 failing to load libxml with DSO after update

[Azuka]

I'm not sure if this is related, but it also seems to affect PHP running as DSO. Some packages e.g. dom appear to be disabled, unless I set the PHP handler to cgi.

EasyApache also intermittently reports only one version of PHP installed: 7.1 (I have both 5.6 and 7.1 installed).

I've forced an upcp and restarted cpanel but the issue still occurs.

 

[Topgun964]

I'm not sure if this is related, but it also seems to affect PHP running as DSO. Some packages e.g. dom appear to be disabled, unless I set the PHP handler to cgi.

This is true for me too. DSO and simplexml are not loading

 

[Nathan Biles]

My site has been completely down since this update. Anyway know a work around until this is fixed?

The reason it is down is because simplexml was removed on reboot and I noticed the config was wrong. I need to customize and add simplexml module to the config, then reload/restart.

 

[joemoto]

Same EA4 issue here (in 11.64.0.21 and .22). Also Apache (2.4.45) started having issues under DSO using ea-php56; simplexml was no longer loading. Although the module is available using php-cli. The missing module caused some front-end websites from loading, as they logged errors for "Class 'DOMDocument' not found in". The short-term fix for Apache is to change the Apache handler from DSO to CGI.

 

[CanSpace]

+1 to the above. Took a while of arguing with the cPanel support agent before I finally convinced him that the missing PHP packages (running on DSO) were also related to the overnight update.

 

[havenswift]

We have also had this issue today on a couple of servers and am also extremely disappointed that this got this far. We have been told there is a case open (EA-6290) but we have no visibility into these ! Our case is DSO as well although there was a workaround by switching to PHP5.5 from the server default which was set to 5.6

 

[JacobPerkins]

Hi everyone,

As stated previously, it looks like the DSO module requires more packages than just XML to have everything compiled in. We apologize this wasn't caught during our testing, and we'll be adding more areas of testing to our DSO module to ensure this doesn't happen again.

We'll be doing a release tonight to back these changes out, and all should be well after that.

As a work around, you can simply switch PHP versions to a PHP version that is not running DSO, or switch the Apache handler to CGI or suPHP.

We'll update this post when the fixes are published.

 

[Nathan Biles]

I just updated to build 22 and still having the same errors

 

[jimmybsilva]

I am having the same issue Fatal error: Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string() in tried switching to another php but the error is the same . What is the work around????

 

[WietseD]

Dear Support,

We are facing the same problems. Fatal error: Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string()
Rolling back the yum update fixed it. I brings down large websites, i hope this will be fixed before asap. We have also created a support ticket.

Best regards,

Wietse Driever

 

[cPanelNick]

The fix for this has been tested and is now in the publication process. It will take a few hours to publish. If you open a ticket from WHM or at cPanel Customer Portal, our team can rollback the update for you.

Please be sure to mention case EA-6290.

 

[cPanelNick]

The publication process has completed.

The system should automatically see the fixed packages with tonight's update. If waiting for the update is not an option, the fixed rpms can be installed with the instructions below:

To clear the cache and force yum to re-examine the repository, please run the following on the command line:

yum clean all
yum update

 

[Azuka]

I just confirmed this is working as expected now. Thanks!

 

[JawadArshad]

[[email protected]:/]$ yum clean all
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, universal-hooks
Cleaning repos: cpanel-addons-production-feed base cpanel-plugins extras updates EA4
Cleaning up Everything
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
[[email protected]:/]$ yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, universal-hooks
Setting up Update Process
Determining fastest mirrors
* cpanel-addons-production-feed: 216.14.113.158
* EA4: 216.14.113.158
cpanel-addons-production-feed | 2.9 kB 00:00 ...
cpanel-addons-production-feed/primary_db | 5.3 kB 00:00
base | 2.9 kB 00:00
base/primary_db | 4.1 MB 00:00
cpanel-plugins | 2.9 kB 00:00 ...
cpanel-plugins/primary_db | 36 kB 00:00
extras | 2.9 kB 00:00
extras/primary_db | 35 kB 00:00
updates | 2.9 kB 00:00
updates/primary_db | 1.9 MB 00:00
EA4 | 2.9 kB 00:00 ...
EA4/primary_db | 6.8 MB 00:02
No Packages marked for Update

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello @JawadArshad,

It's likely the packages were automatically updated on your system before you ran the "yum update" command. Let us know if you encounter any additional issues.

Thanks!