About CPAN trying to install perl 5.6.1; I think this is an issue with some CPAN version. Update CPAN _first_, and it should not try to force you to install 5.6.1 if you do not want to.
Marius Kjeldahl Nicolai Schlenzig (DXD) wrote: > Are you using the mason-handler supplied with Mason? Or did you extend it already? > > I have had similar problems, and it turned out my customized mason-handler had some >inconsistencies concerning sessions handling. After I cleaned that up everything was >fine again. > > You could try to make a very minimized mason-handler and see what that brings. I >know you wanna extend it to have your site running - but it could help just to try >and pin point the fault. > > Also it could be worth looking into installing only HTML::Mason and not the Bundle. >Maybe a few other modules... but do it by hand - one by one. > > I recently updated perl and all modules including Mason and Bundle::HTML::Mason also >tried to install perl 5.6.1 again. Frankly I cannot remember exactly what I did to >avoid that - but I might have installed the modules by hand again. > > I hope this will give you a few hints on what to try. > > BTW, in my httpd.conf I use "PerlRequire /path/to/my/mason-handler.pl" and not the >suggested syntax from the latest Mason. Mainly because it's my old mason-handler >shined up. That will most likely not give any difference to you, but Mason can be >tricky at times. > > I was looking for a way to enable debugging on Mason, but I couldn't find it. I'm >sure it exists - so I'll be digging the man pages next time I have problems. Right >now my system is working fine; so > > - if it's not broken, don't try to fix it ;) > > > Best regards > > Nicolai Schlenzig > nicolai.schlenzig(at)got2get.net > --- > This mail does not reflect my company's > oppinion on the subject in question but > is my personal response and cannot be > held against my company in any way. > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Francesc Guasch Ortiz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:12 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: apache dies silently at start with perl-5.6.1 rpm >> >> >>I'm testing the latest perl rpms from redhat updates: >> perl-5.6.1-26.72.3 >> mod_perl-1.26-2 >> >>I'm using HTML::Mason. >> >>When I start apache it just dies silently without complaining >>and I got nothing in the logs. >> >>I even tried to remove the former perl and modules. I rpmed -e >>a lot of things. Then I removed the perl5 dirs and I installed >>perl and modules. That didn't worked. >> >>When I asked in the Mason list I was told it was a modperl issue. >> >>How can I debug what's happening ? >> >>I've also noticed the cpan binaries aren't seeing well the >>modules installed. When I do >>cpan> install Bundle::CPAN >> >>it starts downloading the perl-5.6.1 sources. >> >>I made sure there are no other perl file binaries nor cpan >>from other installations. >> >>What can I do ? >>-- >>frankie >> >>
