That sounds weird...
Anyway, did you try adding
use DBI;
in your startup.perl script (after Apache::DBI, that is)?
Also, I think I remember reading someone say that any time they upgrade
their system, perl, or whatever, they re-compile all their modules. I
haven't gone through that yet (and I'm on Linux), but maybe that will help
if you were getting the startup script to work before?
As to other associated weirdness, I dunno...
hope this helps some
--Geoff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eugene Miretskiy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 3:33 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: weird mod_perl startup problems
>
> Hello,
>
> After upgrading my machine to FreeBSD3.3, I ran into the problems loading
> modules
> at startup time...
>
> I would like to load the following modules at start up (I have them in
> startup.perl file
> loaded from httpd.conf):
>
> use Apache::Registry;
> use Apache::Request;
> use Apache::DBI ();
> use MIME::Body;
>
> The server does not start -- instead I get this in my error_log:
> Can't locate object method "trace_msg" via package "DBI" at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd/DBI.pm line 311.
> END failed--cleanup aborted.
> run: Operation not supported by device
>
> An interesting thing is that if I comment out MIME::Body (leave
> Apache::DBI) the server starts ok.
> If I comment out Apache::DBI (leave MIME::Body) the server also starts ok.
> Only when both of these modules are loaded I gen into a problem.
>
> Here is a snipplet of code from DBI that causes the problem:
> END {
> DBI->trace_msg(" -> DBI::END\n", 2);
> ##LINE 311
> # Let drivers know why we are calling disconnect_all:
> $DBI::PERL_ENDING = $DBI::PERL_ENDING = 1; # avoid typo warning
> DBI->disconnect_all() if %DBI::installed_drh;
> DBI->trace_msg(" <- DBI::END complete\n", 2);
> }
>
> Finally, If I comment out DBI->trace_msg, the server starts fine with both
> Apache::DBI and
> MIME::Body loaded.
>
> Any ideas to this weirdness?
>
> All modules are latest version.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> P.S.: please reply to my email address as well ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> --
> Eugene Miretskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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