as noted by viq, php crashes in an ssl-related function if curl.so (from the php-curl package) and mapi.so (from zarafa-webaccess) are both enabled in php.
$ ls -l /etc/php-5.3 total 0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 26 Aug 4 23:05 curl.ini -> ../php-5.3.sample/curl.ini lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 26 Aug 4 23:07 mapi.ini -> ../php-5.3.sample/mapi.ini ... it's not due to missing pthread symbols; actually it happens for me whether or not libpthread is preloaded. anyone have clues? (gdb) r Starting program: /usr/sbin/httpd -X Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0000000218a45330 in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x0000000218a45330 in ?? () #1 0x0000000208b71615 in CRYPTO_THREADID_current (id=0x7f7ffffc9850) at /usr/src/lib/libssl/crypto/../src/crypto/cryptlib.c:490 #2 0x0000000208af8b1b in ERR_remove_thread_state (id=Variable "id" is not available. ) at /usr/src/lib/libssl/crypto/../src/crypto/err/err.c:990 #3 0x00000002097f6c72 in Curl_ssl_cleanup () from /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.23.0 #4 0x00000002097ec253 in curl_global_cleanup () from /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.23.0 #5 0x000000021130fcd8 in zm_shutdown_curl () from /usr/local/lib/php-5.3/modules/curl.so #6 0x00000002108a68f3 in module_destructor () from /usr/local/lib/php-5.3/libphp5.so #7 0x00000002108ae28a in zend_hash_apply_deleter () from /usr/local/lib/php-5.3/libphp5.so #8 0x00000002108ae4f8 in zend_hash_graceful_reverse_destroy () from /usr/local/lib/php-5.3/libphp5.so #9 0x00000002108a17b7 in zend_shutdown () from /usr/local/lib/php-5.3/libphp5.so #10 0x000000021084ada5 in php_module_shutdown () from /usr/local/lib/php-5.3/libphp5.so #11 0x000000021084ae59 in php_module_shutdown_wrapper () from /usr/local/lib/php-5.3/libphp5.so #12 0x0000000210933bc8 in apache_php_module_shutdown_wrapper () from /usr/local/lib/php-5.3/libphp5.so #13 0x000000000043c366 in ap_clear_pool () #14 0x000000000044949b in ap_init_mutex_method () #15 0x000000000044acee in main ()