/admin/build/menu edit a menu item and apache crashes

My situation is identical: Apache Crashes with Menu-editing/creating (cant' reproduce it, seeem a random "effect")

Drupal: 5.1
Apache: 1.3.33
PHP: 4.4.4
DB: MySQL 4.1.21-community-nt
Server: Windows2000

-thePanz-

I thought it was the "Node Words" module, and when I disabled it it worked for awhile (i thought) but I am still having this same issue.

(http://drupal.org/node/117329)

Oh my, 3 posts in a row, I'm sorry guys.

Ok, I have ruled out as much as possible. I have tried disabling all my mods, undoing all my customizations (back to the original Drupal 5.1 release) tried with and without CleanURL's enabled, with and without .htaccess used, checked all my logs (I can't seem to see any references to the 500 errors, but I think that may be because I'm on one of those shared hosts that don't give you access to all the logs.)

Here is the (hopefully temporary) workaround I am using at the moment. (Just posting for the rest of you that need a quick fix... the menus on my live site were really messed up for way too long.)

Problem:
When trying to Edit a menu item you get an internal 500 server error. Sometimes when attempting to commit a change, sometimes when simply hitting "edit."

Workaround:
Create New Menu Items and delete old ones instead of editing existing ones. The edit button is unusable (500 error) for me at the moment but I have no issues creating New menu items and Deleting old ones.

Side note while I'm thinking about it. I didn't seem to have any problems editing SUB-menus. Only the top level menus seem to have issues. May be luck of the draw though.

I have a smiler problem with my site. It comes back with a CGI Error when I try to submit the Edit. Its running a Win Server with PHP4 and It never did this before. I checked with the Host and they say they haven't changed anything.

Anyone got any ideas?

Activemenu Module was the source of this problem in my case. Disabling it removed the problem.

I had a similar problem! When I tried to add a new menu item I got a 500 error. I could edit and save already existing menu items. I deleted the whole menu and created a new menu with the same name and now everything works.

Running drupal 5.1, mysql 5 on a shared host.

I too was experiencing the same problem both on my (Drupal 5.x) development system (WinXP, Apache 2, PHP 4.4.3) and on my production live server (Linux, Apache 1.3, PHP 4.4.4) so I suspected all along it was a data corruption problem of some sort (as I periodically copy back DB from live to development for on going work).

When it happened again to me today, and after reading these comments, I decided to binary search the source till I found the offending line of code. I already suspected it to be a stack overflow as that seems to be about the only thing that can kill Apache.

Eventually I found that the problem arose when the code called function menu_parent_options in the menu.module. This is a recursive routine so it fitted the symptoms nicely and whenever I called it with the recursion commented out the problem did not arise.

In an attempt to try to find out why it was not coming out of the recursion process, I added a "get out of jail" line of code at the top of the function:

function menu_parent_options($mid, $pid = 0, $depth = 0) {
  $options = array();
  if ($depth > 5) return $options; // Added; problem went away; then could remove this line!

However, as you can see from the comment, after I added this line and was able to get a successful list of possible parent menu items returned to my "add menu item" form, the problem went away. In fact, I could then remove the "get out of jail" line and it still worked.

This leads me to suspect that the problem arises when, for whatever reason, the menu cache is out of whack or something? Perhaps someone who knows more about how Drupal's core menu system works can shed more light on this.

If I discover a reproducible way to get my site into this initial state I will repost here.

I have just encountered this problem using:
drupal 5.7
xampp 1.6.4
apache 2.2.6
php 4.4.7
mysql 5.0.51

I switched to php 5.2.5 and the problem went away.

Switching between php 4 and php 5 I can reproduce the behaviour consistently so it would appear to be a problem related to php 4.

(I'll be sticking with php 5 so won't be investigating further unless anyone wants more information.)

Happend on my web too. Perhaps effect from installing CCK? I have already disable the module but the menu still cannot be edited because the list of my menu BLANKS! or EMPTY! Why? But no page is missing at the moment.

Here are some Status of my web.

Drupal 6.9
Access to update.php Protected
Configuration file Protected
Cron maintenance tasks Last run 14 min 40 sec ago
You can run cron manually.
Database updates Up to date
Drupal core update status Up to date
File system Writable (public download method)
Module and theme update status Up to date
MySQL database 5.0.67
PHP 5.2.8
PHP memory limit 32M
PHP register globals Disabled
Unicode library PHP Mbstring Extension
Update notifications Enabled
Web server Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8b mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.8

Thank you.

Help needed!