PHP Oracle [notice] child pid NNNN exit signal Bus error (10)

After some frustration I learned from a forum post that the default password time limit for Oracle 11g is 120 days. Once you get close to that you will go into a grace period, where PHP's oci connection dies on you with no explanation. You will notice a message like this in you apache log:

• [notice] child pid NNNN exit signal Bus error (10) in the apache log.

Step 1: Change your password, or rather lets just keep it as it is...

• ALTER USER myname IDENTIFIED BY mypassword

Step 2: Make us not have to do this again:

• ALTER PROFILE DEFAULT LIMIT PASSWORD_LIFE_TIME UNLIMITED;

Hope this helps someone.