Question

xdebug.so No such file or directory?

I got this error message to email multiple times in a day : Failed loading /usr/lib/php/20121212/xdebug.so: /usr/lib/php/20121212/xdebug.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

System is: ubuntu 14.04 x64 After this linux command i started to get this error: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-upgrade

How i can get message off?


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Ryan Quinn
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March 29, 2017
Accepted Answer

It appears that this has occurred to some users after a PHP upgrade. Resolving it will likely mean identifying the location of your xdebug.so file and updating your php.ini to match. These threads include several suggestions on how to accomplish this.

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