Contact ActiveState. But I would suggest ppm verify --upgrade DBI should
work.
--Neil
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 8:35 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: DBI and Perl 5.6.1.62x Application Error
>
>
>Suddenly Perl doesn't work with DBI or DBD-ODBC!
>
>It *did* work, brilliantly, until last week when I installed a
>whole load of
>new modules via PPM (and upgraded from Perl 5.6.1.623 ->
>5.6.1.626 ) and now
>I cannot connect to any database without Perl dying.I have
>tried everything
>I can think of to solve this - including removing Perl 626
>(along with all
>the old modules), reinstalling version 623 (clean install) and
>re-installing
>the DBI and DBD-ODBC modules - it still does not work.
>
>Ironically I have a production machine downstairs that is
>using exactly this
>setup and has no problems.
>
>I have been through the possible scenarios of it being my
>coding, but I am
>sure this is not the case (the code worked fine beforehand,
>and test scripts
>fail also).
>
>It is looking a bit like there may be a registry gremlin but I
>have no real
>idea about this.
>
>Although I have seen my error appear in the odd
>mailinglist/newsgroup to do
>with Perl and DBI I have not seen any answers to this problem.
>
>THE ERROR:
>
> The connection is made, the data retreived (and I can use it)
>but Perl.exe
> throws an Application Error - " The instruction at
>"0x77f6754b" referenced
> memory at "0x036e1e18". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to
> terminate the application."
>
>SETUP:
>
> I'm using:
> - Activestate Perl build 5.6.1.626
> - $DBI::VERSION = "1.14"
> - $DBD::ODBC::VERSION = '0.28'
>
>
>FAILING CODE:
> Here's some code that should work fine...
>
> my $h = DBI-connect( "DBI:ODBC:$dsn","$dbuser", "$dbpass", )
> or die "Can't make a connection to the Bourjois Database:
> $DBI::errstr\n";
>
> my $sth=$h-prepare("
> SELECT page_id,title
> FROM meta ");
>
> $sth-execute();
>
> my $result_set = $sth-fetchall_arrayref();
>
> $h-disconnect();
>
>
>I am running into workload problems with this now, I have been
>trying to
>solve it on my own for three days. Any help would be *hugely*
>appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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