[rt-users] Apache/PHP 5.1.2/mod_perl Solaris 10 Problem: followup

[rjansen at vub.ac.be]

Remember this ?
>
>
> Seems that the "Out of Memory!" error is still there !!
>
> Arrghh,... I'm at a loss here,...
>
>
> The Solaris installed perl isn't an option because we need a more recent
> one than Sun's 5.8.4 (see above ,.. 5.8.8 default fails to)
>
> Any hints ? A working recipe ?
>

For all the folks thinking of using Perl on Solaris 10,... DON'T !!!!!!!!!!!
Perl is broken on Solaris 10 !!!!

Well, after digging a bit deeper on the web, I found this:

http://guest:guest@rt.perl.org/rt3/index.html?q=37376

!!!!!!!!   It's a PERL BUG !! which should be fixed in perl 5.9.3.

A perl 5.9.3 default settings compile (only 64 bit int support expl.
chosen) with gcc 3.3.2 will show the following options set:
Compile-time options: PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
                        PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV USE_64_BIT_INT
                        USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO

So I installed 5.9.3,... but,... and surely some other another problems
popped up. (2 RT problems mentioned below. but several required perl
modules for rt show strange test results under perl 5.9.3)

1) Tree::Simple has the "use 5.6.0" on line 4, which breaks RT under perl
5.9.3 (disabling the line in the .pm works around the bug)

2) from time to time,.... (not always !!) the "RT at a glance" page breaks
with the following:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:02:31 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.34
(Unix) PHP/5.1.2 mod_perl/1.29 Pragma: no-cache Cache-control: no-cache
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=97 Connection: Keep-Alive, Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked, chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
System error

error: 	Error during compilation of
/usr/local/packages/rt3/share/html/Elements/CollectionAsTable/ParseFormat:
Variable "$s" is not available at (re_eval 363) line 1.
Variable "$x" is not available at (re_eval 363) line 1.

context:
1: 	%# BEGIN BPS TAGGED BLOCK {{{
2: 	%#
3: 	%# COPYRIGHT:
4: 	%#
5: 	%# This software is Copyright (c) 1996-2005 Best Practical Solutions, LLC
...
code stack: 	 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.3/HTML/Mason/Interp.pm:454
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.3/HTML/Mason/Request.pm:1088
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.3/HTML/Mason/Request.pm:1002
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.9.3/HTML/Mason/Request.pm:1197
/usr/local/packages/rt3/share/html/Elements/TicketList:120
/usr/local/packages/rt3/share/html/Elements/MyTickets:49
/usr/local/packages/rt3/share/html/Elements/TitleBox:48
/usr/local/packages/rt3/share/html/Elements/MyTickets:58
/usr/local/packages/rt3/share/html/index.html:80
/usr/local/packages/rt3/share/html/autohandler:215
raw error

Th rt.log shows similar messages:

(this is an example) [Fri Apr  7 14:18:42 2006] [warning]: Use of
uninitialized value in string eq at
/usr/local/packages/rt3/lib/RT/User_Overlay.pm line 1100.
(/usr/local/packages/rt3/lib/RT.pm:287)


By clicking on "Home" to reload the page displays the page correctly 9 out
of 10 )

It seemes that somehow perl is "loosing" variables (be it through expiry
and or pointer misalignment,... or else,...  I don't know,...)

For all the folks thinking of using Perl on Solaris 10,... DON'T !!!!!!!!!!!
Perl is broken on Solaris 10 !!!!


Jesse , we need your help here,...

Any ideas ?

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