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Need to downgrade pcre from 8.21 to 8.20

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  1. Avensen

    Avensen Member

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    After upgrading php to 5.3.10 via EasyApache there is a problem with a vBulletin 3.8.7 site on server.

    Looks like a bug in pcre 8.21: Bug 1187 – Pcre 8.21 issue with Vbulletin

    Please help to downgrade pcre from 8.21 to 8.20 on the server. CENTOS 5.7 i686, WHM 11.30.6 (build 3).
     
    #1 Avensen, Feb 11, 2012
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    I got same Problem Please Help
     
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    Me as well, vbulletin does not support anything higher than 8.2.0.
     
    #3 squadx, Feb 11, 2012
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    It's interesting that bug report says fixed...but it's obviously not
     
    #4 squadx, Feb 11, 2012
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    We will see soon a EasyApache 3.9.>1 (.2 maybe?)
    with curl fix and pcre patch ?

    It's hard to patch and keep an eye on all servers for those.
    Already a mess with both of them (curl when someone uses ssl, pcre with vBulletin forums)
     
    #5 chrismfz, Feb 12, 2012
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    Does anyone have any info on how to downgrade to PCRE 8.20?
     
    #6 Worelock, Feb 12, 2012
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    There is a patch, thanks to cPanel support (insert credits here):

     
    #7 chrismfz, Feb 12, 2012
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    How and where would one install the patch ?

    Thanks
     
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    Or did anyone find a way to downgrade the PCRE ? I've been searching for over an hour without any luck .......
     
    #9 oldlock, Feb 12, 2012
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    Thanks chrismfz, your solution worked for me! Except this part:

    Code:
    echo '--- pcre-8.21/pcre_compile.c 2011/12/07 16:52:34 793
+++ pcre-8.21/pcre_compile.c 2011/12/18 10:03:38 807
@@ -1655,7 +1655,8 @@
case OP_ASSERTBACK:
case OP_ASSERTBACK_NOT:
do cc += GET(cc, 1); while (*cc == OP_ALT);
- /* Fall through */
+ cc += _pcre_OP_lengths[*cc];
+ break;' | patch -p0
    which gave me an error, however, I opened the pcre-8.21/pcre_compile.c file and edited it manually.
     
    #10 Avensen, Feb 12, 2012
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    What exactly didn't work with the patch ?

    Third command is a large copy paste not line by line, just the whole:
    except if the browser did something, or I misspelled a quote or something else. Maybe a cPanel staff
    review it and correct/fix it if I pasted it wrong.
     
    #11 chrismfz, Feb 12, 2012
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    #12 Avensen, Feb 12, 2012
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    The process results in the attached screenshot Capture.JPG
     
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    Probably a mistake on my part there. I'm running the process from the beginning.
     
    #14 oldlock, Feb 12, 2012
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    in my case the error with patch command was:

    Code:
    patching file pcre-8.21/pcre_compile.c
patch: **** malformed patch at line 4: case OP_ASSERTBACK:
     
    #15 Avensen, Feb 12, 2012
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    Forgot the first 2 commands. Entering the sources folder and extracting pcre.
     
    #16 chrismfz, Feb 12, 2012
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    Still returns an error. Screenshot attached.

    Capture.JPG

    I did the commands from the beginning.
     
    #17 oldlock, Feb 12, 2012
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    for the most part the info above worked. but I got a malformed line when I did the echo, here is what i did to make it work

    cd /var/cpanel/perl/easy/Cpanel/Easy/OptLib
    tar -xzvf pcre.pm.tar.gz

    created a patch file called pcre_patch & added this to it.

    --- pcre-8.21/pcre_compile.c 2011/12/07 16:52:34 793
    +++ pcre-8.21/pcre_compile.c 2011/12/18 10:03:38 807
    @@ -1655,7 +1655,8 @@
    case OP_ASSERTBACK:
    case OP_ASSERTBACK_NOT:
    do cc += GET(cc, 1); while (*cc == OP_ALT);
    - /* Fall through */
    + cc += _pcre_OP_lengths[*cc];
    + break;

    patch -p1 < pcre_patch
    it might ask for the filename to patch, I just typed pcre-8.21/pcre_compile.c
    and it patched the file.

    then I just ran the rest of the commands from above

    tar -czvf pcre.pm.tar.gz pcre-8.21/
    rm -Rf pcre-8.21/
    chattr +i pcre.pm.tar.gz
    rm -Rf /opt/pcre/
    /scripts/easyapache --build
    chattr -i pcre.pm.tar.gz

    My forums are now working again...I'm a happy camper
    the code for the patch came from this post http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1187
     
    #18 Worelock, Feb 12, 2012
    Last edited: Feb 13, 2012
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    What is the extension for the patch file you created ? Could you detail the steps involved precisely ?
     
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    There's a couple of inconsistencies in your file names too ??
     
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