[rt-users] Can't locate object method "MailDashboards", post upgrade to 4.2.7

[Adam Thompson]

On 14-10-02 09:54 AM, Kevin Falcone wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 11:43:08AM -0500, Adam Thompson wrote:
>> I just upgraded a 4.2.3 installation to 4.2.7, and rt-email-dashboards suddenly
>> broke, and now the cron job emails messages like this to me every hour:
>>
>>
>>      [1591] [Tue Sep 30 21:00:03 2014] [critical]: Can't locate object method "MailDashboards" via package "RT::Dashboard::Mailer" at /opt/rt4/sbin/rt-email-dashboards line 96. (/opt/rt4/sbin/../lib/RT.pm:393)
>>      Can't locate object method "MailDashboards" via package "RT::Dashboard::Mailer" at /opt/rt4/sbin/rt-email-dashboards line 96.
>>
>>
>> Oddly, running it by hand works just fine - it only fails when invoked from
>> cron.
> Running by hand as root or as the web user or as the user cron runs
> as?  Most likely error is permissions.  I've not seen any other
> reports of this on 4.2.7.

Running by hand as root, which is who the cron job runs as, too.
However, I think I just found the problem - rebooted the box, and 
encountered massive filesystem corruption.  (And no idea why... oh, yay.)

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-Adam Thompson
  athompso at athompso.net