I discovered what was causing the problem. Even though I had used the following in the startup.pl fileOkay, all of the tests are being passed. I have added the contents of my startup.pl file to the modperl_startup.pl file and no segfaults are occurring including even when I change the Handler.pm file as the tests are being run on it. I have also added some items to the conf file to try and reproduced how my httpd.conf file is set up and again no segfaults. Should I go the whole way and add the entire contents of my httpd.conf file to the test conf file? Or is there some other approach I should take in order to reproduce the problem?
Stas Bekman wrote
Yes, the easiest approach is to start with everything that you have and you get a segfault. And then follow the "binary search" approach, where you try to cut the stuff to the minimum but trying to remove halves of config/code/whatever.
use Apache2::Const -compile => ':common';
the Apache modules were segfaulting on the straight 'OK' constant declarations in them. So I fixed the problem by replacing the above line with the following line in the startup.pl file
use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(OK REDIRECT FORBIDDEN SERVER_ERROR);
I then went through each Apache module and removed the 'use Apache2::Const' declarations and changed all of the 'OK' constants to Apache2::Const::OK . I did the same thing for the REDIRECT, FORBIDDEN, etc constants in the modules. The only problem I am still having is with the REMOTE_HOST constant which caused a changed module to segfault no matter how I declare it.
Otherwise, all of the Apache modules work fine.
However, the other modules I have in the Melior namespace are not getting reloaded. Apparently the reason for this as noted in the following post at
http://forums.devside.net/viewtopic.php?t=671&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
is that they are being called from within the Apache2 modules. In other words, because the Melior modules only get requested by modules in the Apache2 namespace, they don't get reloaded even though their own separate namespace is declared within them, as well as in the Apache2 modules and the startup.pl file.
With regard to debugging this problem, the reload debugger shows that the Melior modules do get reloaded when they change but the change doesn't show up on the page that gets spit out. Here is a sample from the error_log
#Apache2::Reload: process 24620 reloading Melior::Menus from Melior/Menus.pm
# Apache2::Reload::handler('Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0xcce5d18)') called at /opt/prod/apache/Melior/Menus.pm line 0
# eval {...} called at /opt/prod/apache/Melior/Menus.pm line 0
# Apache2::Reload: Checking mtime of CCMckErrno3_2.pm
# Apache2::Reload::handler('Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0xcce5d18)') called at -e line 0
# eval {...} called at -e line 0
BTW, as I mentioned last time, I believe this problem first cropped up with modperl version 1.99.17. If you have any suggestions on what I should tinker with in order to get modules called by other modules reloaded that would be great.
And again thanks for all of your help, Vince
