Spine Poller Errors - PHP Script Server communications lost

[gharper]

I just upgraded both Cacti and Spine from 0.8.7e to 0.8.7g, and nearly everything appears to be working, however I started seeing hundreds of these errors in the Cacti log for every poller cycle:

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09/29/2010 11:26:38 AM - SPINE: Poller[0] ERROR: SS[3] PHP Script Server communications lost. Restarting PHP Script Server

...and a bit of digging shows that the ss_host_disk.php and ss_host_cpu.php scripts aren't running correctly, and the graphs that rely on those scripts aren't updating any longer.

When I run spine manually, I see this in the output:

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09/29/2010 11:22:50 AM - SPINE: Poller[0] DEBUG: SS[4] Confirmed PHP Script Server running using readfd[15], writefd[11]
PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function:  parseargs() in /var/www/html/cacti/script_server.php on line 175
09/29/2010 11:22:50 AM - SPINE: Poller[0] Host[141] TH[1] DS[2199] SS[4] SERVER: /var/www/html/cacti/scripts/ss_host_disk.php ss_host_disk host.domain.com 141 2:161:500:1:10:xxx:::MD5::DES: get total 10, output: 0

Changing to cmd.php for the poller changes the error, but it's still choking on the same two scripts...

At this point, I think this might be an issue with my PHP installation, however I'm at a loss as to how to fix it. Any suggestions?

OS: RHEL 4
PHP packages:

• php-devel-4.3.9-3.22.9
  php-4.3.9-3.22.9
  php-gd-4.3.9-3.22.9
  php-snmp-4.3.9-3.22.9
  php-pear-4.3.9-3.22.9
  php-mysql-4.3.9-3.22.9

Update:
Moving the parseArgs() function in script_server.php to the top of the file seems to have fixed the "Call to undefined function" error...

I also noticed that spine was referencing a different conf file in /var/net-snmp/spine.conf and throwing "Warning: Unknown token: DB_****". Once I deleted that conf file (leaving the actual one in /usr/local/spine/etc/spine.conf) everything appears to be working now.

If anyone has any insight as to why this happened though, I'd be interested in understanding the root cause!

[TheWitness]

Yup. that's an issue with that old and 'reliable' PHP 4. I don't dev on it anymore. Sorry about that...

TheWitness