Undefined symbol: PL_perl_destruct_level after upgrading....
Hi,
I realise this issue isn't "new", but my main problem is finding out
how to resolve the issue, short of upgrading from Woody to Sarge,
which is something that I need to plan carefully (cloning HDD for a
"test upgrade" and all that) :P
Basically, I recently upgraded apache, mysql & php using http://
www.dotdeb.org. However, the upgrade of apache broke a script which
relied on DBI, which in turn relies on mod_perl.
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install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/auto/DBD/
mysql/mysql.so' for module DBD::mysql: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/DBD/mysql/
mysql.so: undefined symbol: PL_perl_destruct_level at /usr/lib/perl/
5.8.0/DynaLoader.pm line 225.
at (eval 3) line 3
Compilation failed in require at (eval 3) line 3.
Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected
at ./transferleads_updated.pl line 19
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Line 19:-
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$db_name:$db_hostname",
$db_username, $db_password)
or die "Couldn't connect to database: " . DBI->errstr;
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Investigating this issue, it seems that _somehow_ Perl 5.8.0 was
installed on the Woody server I admin. (we took over this server from
previous owners, and I don't think the server was wiped clean - this
was before my time so..). Checking around, I'm frankly puzzled as to
how Perl 5.8.0 was installed. Anyway, since Perl 5.8.0 is installed,
it would cause too much problems to downgrade back to 5.6.0 (broken
scripts and all that).
The main problem is that I cannot simply do a "dselect" & reinstall
"libapache-mod-perl", because as far as I can tell, the woody stable
version of "libapache-mod-perl" requires Perl 5.6, whilst I somehow
have Perl 5.8...
Any thoughts & suggestions as to how I can get DBI to work without
errors for now, till I do a proper upgrade to Sarge?
Deepest thanks,
Yoav
Miscellaneous info...
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$ dpkg -l | grep perl
rc apache-perl 1.3.27-0.1-1.2 Versatile, high-performance HTTP
server with
ii dpkg-perl 0.1-3.0 Perl interface modules for dpkg
ii libdbi-perl 1.35-1 The Perl5 Database Interface by Tim
Bunce
ii libdevel-symdu 2.03-3 Perl module for inspecting perl's
symbol tab
ii libgd-gd1-perl 1.41-7 Perl module wrapper for libgd (old
version a
ii libgd-perl 1.41-7 Perl module wrapper for libgd
ii libmd5-perl 2.02-3.1 backwards-compatible wrapper for
Digest::MD5
ii libnet-perl 1.12-1 Implementation of Internet
protocols for Per
ii libperl5.6 5.6.1-8.9 Shared Perl library.
ii libplrpc-perl 0.2016-1 Perl extensions for writing PlRPC
servers an
ii liburi-perl 1.23-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strings
ii libwww-perl 5.69-2 WWW client/server library for Perl
(aka LWP)
ii perl 5.8.0-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
and Report
ii perl-5.005 6.3 Transitional package.
ii perl-5.005-bas 6.3 Transitional package.
ii perl-5.005-doc 6.3 Transitional package.
ii perl-base 5.8.0-17 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish
Lister.
ii perl-doc 5.8.0-17 Perl documentation.
ii perl-modules 5.8.0-17 Core Perl modules.
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$ dpkg -l | grep apache
ii apache 1.3.27.0-2 Versatile, high-performance HTTP
server
ii apache-common 1.3.27.0-2 Support files for all Apache
webservers
rc apache-perl 1.3.27-0.1-1.2 Versatile, high-performance HTTP
server with
ii apache-ssl 1.3.27.0-2 Versatile, high-performance HTTP
server with
rc libapache-mod- 3.3a-4woody1 Apache connector for Tomcat servlet
engine
ii libapache-mod- 4.4.1-0.dotdeb server-side, HTML-embedded
scripting languag
ii libapache-mod- 2.8.7-1 Strong cryptography (HTTPS support)
for Apac
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$ uname -a
Linux pod-107 2.4.20-3-686 #1 Sun May 18 20:26:19 EST 2003 i686 GNU/
Linux
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