Okay, I know this isn't really Zen's fault, but I'm running out of ideas and workarounds to try, so I thought I'd post to see if anyone else has run into this and what the workaround might be.

I'm using Drupal 6.12 on PHP 5.2.9 on a VPS with FreeBSD 7.2 - all the most recent stable releases. The PHP process is crashing and causing the server to return WSODs when CSS compression is enabled in Drupal - but only when a Zen subtheme is used. This means the "standard" Zen theme, or my own custom subtheme; everything works when Zen Classic is used, and likewise with Garland. Enabling just JavaScript compression works fine, as do all the other widgets on the "Performance" page. It's just CSS compression with Zen subthemes, as far as I can tell.

Investigating logs reveals this:

Jun 22 19:53:18 2078 kernel: pid 77910 (php-cgi), uid 80: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)

And signal 11 seems to be a segmentation fault error.

This is kind of weird because the company I work for uses another VPS from the same hosting company, and I can't replicate the error over there. I haven't yet been bored enough to pour over the minute differences in the PHP installation between that account and my own…

Has anyone else run into this? Can you suggest some solutions or workarounds?

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Garrett Albright commented
Status: Active » Fixed

I'm still not sure what the cause was, but after I asked my VPS host to nuke everything and then rebuilt, reinstalled and reconfigured everything from the ground up, Zen subthemes are now working again. So I'll decriment Zen's open issue count by one.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.