SPUG: Perl upgrade broke mod_perl.

[Ben Reser]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 04:50:21PM -0800, William Rowden wrote:
> Usually I happily use Perl and leave its administration to someone
> else.  Now, *I'm* the administrator, and I'm not certain where to
> look.
> 
> Without warning me, Red Hat's up2date daemon upgraded Perl from 5.6.0
> to 5.6.1 (never mind what the rest of the world uses).  This resulted
> in the following mod_perl errors upon restarting Apache:
> 
> 	[error] Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl . /etc/httpd/ /etc/httpd/lib/perl) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/Apache.pm line 3.
> 	BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/Apache.pm line 3.
> 	Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 3.

I think your mod_perl version needs to be compiled against your perl
version.  So rebuild mod_perl if you did it by hand or if you installed
an rpm go get an update (guessing you did it by hand because up2date
should have gotten a new version of mod_perl too if it updated perl).

Alternately if you have a backup of your 5.6.0 perl library files you
should be able to restore them and mod_perl should work.
(/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/... and /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/... as a
guess from what the error shown above).

At any rate I strongly recommend people not run programs that install
updates for them.  It's one thing to have a program that tells you what
you need.  But upgrading things like perl requires some thought into how
it will effect your system.

-- 
Ben Reser <ben at reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org

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whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi

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