[Typo3] Fileadmin problem (Gentoo)

Wed Nov 9 12:17:11 CET 2005

I've been running Typo3 3.8.0 on two Gentoo boxes and have come across a
problem after upgrading to the current PHP5 build
(dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r4) on both. I'm inclined to believe that this has
resulted from some patches submitted to the official PHP development
team (ex. http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=35067) since these weren't
present in the previous 5.0.5 ebuilds and the problem didn't occur when
using them. Unfortunately, the older ebuilds are no longer in portage.
Configuration for Apache, PHP5 and T3 was identical in all cases.

When viewing the File -> Filelist module I get the folder tree displayed
properly in the left frame but a blank page in the right. Similarly, any
action referencing files in the filemount (e.g., templates) produces the
same result, meaning that I can log into and use the backend but the
frontend will not render. The resulting source in all cases is this:

<html><body></body></html>

In my php_error_log I find these entries matching the page accesses:

[08-Nov-2005 23:44:31] PHP Warning:  gzcompress() expects parameter 2 to
be long, string given in
/var/www/typo3/typo3_src-3.8.0/t3lib/class.gzip_encode.php on line 187

These errors do not occur when browsing the filemount using the File ->
Images module and I have not noticed them in any other part of the
backend. Considering that Gentoo has migrated PHP to ver. 4/5 slotting
I've been able to revert to PHP4 to work around this problem for now.

Any suggestions on how to proceed or what additional info might be
needed? I'm not sure if this is a problem to report here or to the
Gentoo PHP maintainers... but considering that T3 is the only thing
currently affected I thought this should be my first stop.

S. G. Kearn