Your local version of DBD::mysql is out of date. The relevant notes from my rt3.8 upgrade on Debian Etch are below. Hope that helps.
Kris Boutilier Information Services Coordinator Sunshine Coast Regional District ------------------------- 'column_info failed: column_info doesn't support column selection' means DBD::mysql is probably out of date, so check installed version of DBD::mysql # perl -MCPAN -e 'print CPAN::Shell->r ' Package namespace installed latest in CPAN file ... DBD::mysql 3.0008 4.007 CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.007.tar.gz ... What does Debian provide as a package and are we up to date? rt38:/# apt-cache search DBD::mysql libdbd-mysql-perl - A Perl5 database interface to the MySQL database rt38:/# apt-get install libdbd-mysql-perl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done libdbd-mysql-perl is already the newest version. Hmmm.... http://packages.debian.org tells us that 4.007-1 is available in Testing. Can we easily install the package from Testing on this Stable machine? [don't bother trying this route, it fails miserably...] rt38:/usr/src# wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libd/libdbd-mysql-perl/libdbd-mysql-perl_4.007-1_amd64.deb [clip] ... So, no. How about installing from sources, via CPAN? rt38:/usr/src# wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CA/CAPTTOFU/DBD-mysql-4.007.tar.gz {clip} 12:12:57 (444.49 KB/s) - `DBD-mysql-4.007.tar.gz' saved [123516/123516] rt38:/usr/src# tar -xvzf DBD-mysql-4.007.tar.gz rt38:/usr/src/DBD-mysql-4.007# perl Makefile.PL Hmmmm... it needs access to the mysql_client binary to build, so: rt38:/# apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev rt38:/usr/src/DBD-mysql-4.007# perl Makefile.PL rt38:/usr/src/DBD-mysql-4.007# make rt38:/usr/src/DBD-mysql-4.007# make install And, try again: rt38:/usr/src/rt-3.8.0rc3# perl etc/upgrade/schema.mysql-4.0-4.1.pl rt3 root '' > sql.queries rt3.Groups.Instance has type VARCHAR however mapping is missing. Odd message, but everything seems to work now. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of web master Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:00 AM To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com Subject: [rt-users] Upgrading to 3.8.0: schema.mysql, column_info selection problem Hi there I am having schema.mysql-4.0-4.1.pl problems upgrading to version 3.8.0 from 3.6.6. make upgrade worked well. {clip} [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc/upgrade/schema.mysql-4.0-4.1.pl DB USER PASS > sql.queries but DBD::mysql::db column_info failed: column_info doesn't support column selection at etc/upgrade/schema.mysql-4.0-4.1.pl line 227. DBD::mysql::db column_info failed: column_info doesn't support column selection at etc/upgrade/schema.mysql-4.0-4.1.pl line 227. {clip} _______________________________________________ http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users Community help: http://wiki.bestpractical.com Commercial support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Discover RT's hidden secrets with RT Essentials from O'Reilly Media. Buy a copy at http://rtbook.bestpractical.com