[rt-users] RT stopped working after latest yum updates

Jesse Vincent jesse at bestpractical.com
Mon Jul 21 15:03:09 EDT 2008


On Jul 21, 2008, at 2:56 AM, Kobus Bensch wrote:

> Hi Jesse
>
> I have managed to resolve the issues here.
>
> I only have one last issue. All RT emails are stuck in the sendmail  
> queue with this error:
>
> (Deferred: prog mailer (/usr/sbin/smrsh) exited with EX_TEMPF)
> "|/opt/rt3/bin/rt-mailgate --queue 'IT
>
> Can you help with this please?
>

Just tell sendmail to run the queue again now that RT is accepting  
mail again.

> Thanks
>
> Kobus
> Quoting Jesse Vincent <jesse at bestpractical.com>:
>
> >
> > On Jul 16, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Mark E. Walker wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Kobus,
> >>
> >> I had the same problem about two weeks ago.  Unfortunately, I never
> >> did find out EXACTLY what the problem was, however, an upgrade to
> >> 3.8 fixed it.  Testdeps and fixdeps didn't help me, everything was
> >> there.
> >>
> > It's almost certainly Scalar::Util being reinstalled "incorrectly."
> > If you reinstall it, the issue should go away.
> >
> > -jesse
> >
> >> My upgrade consisted of backing up the database, blowing away the
> >> site, and doing the upgrade install as per the README.
> >>
> >> Now the Upgrade install did the required testdeps/fixdeps, and that
> >> may have done something after blowing away the site.  I'm not sure.
> >>
> >> During my testing I found out the following:  If I removed the
> >> perlhandler directive in the apache config, the site came up, but  
> it
> >> was the "you're almost there" page.  Putting it back in brought up
> >> the download again.  I had no errors anywhere in any log files.
> >>
> >> My guess is that mason is crashing somewhere and the resulting zero
> >> length file returned to the browser doesn't have any mime type so  
> it
> >> tries to download a file.  Unfortunately, fixing that is beyond my
> >> current level with RT/Perl and Mason.
> >>
> >> I know this may not have helped much, and I apologize, but maybe it
> >> will provide a little more info to get you or the community on the
> >> way.
> >>
> >> Let us know what you eventually do to fix this.  I think it's going
> >> to be a recurring theme with the perl/myself update.
> >>
> >> mw
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com
> >> [mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com
> >> ] On Behalf Of Drew Barnes
> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:02 AM
> >> To: Kobus Bensch; rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> >> Subject: Re: [rt-users] RT stopped working after latest yum updates
> >>
> >> Sounds like the perl/mysql update will require some perl module
> >> updates.  make fixdeps may do you some good.
> >>
> >>
> >> Kobus Bensch wrote:
> >>>
> >>> There was 215 updates including perl and mysql. I will post the  
> full
> >>> log here in a bit.
> >>>
> >>> Kobus
> >>>
> >>> Quoting Drew Barnes <barnesaw at ucrwcu.rwc.uc.edu>:
> >>>
> >>>> What did yum update?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Kobus Bensch wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi all
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I use RT 3.6.5 on Centos5. Last night I performed a rather large
> >>>>> yum update and since then rt stopped working. When I go to the  
> rt
> >>>>> webpage it comes up with a windows asking if I want to  
> download a
> >>>>> file.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Can anybody help with this please.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Let em know if you need more info
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Kobus
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>  
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