SID-00177: /bin/configure broken

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.2.4	Perl version:	5.10.?
Category:	DirectedGraphPlugin	Server OS:	debian lenny 5.0	Last update:	15 years ago

I have a barebones linux debian lenny 5.0 machine installed perl 5.10 and deps installed twiki all working

then installed directedgraphplugin, /bin/configure is now broken. loads half way then stops.

apache logs and command line have this error

•  Attempt to reload Scalar/Util.pm aborted. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl/5.10/overload.pm line 94, <DATA> line 1. 

I can replicate this on other machines, and a full uninstall of the plugin perl ./directedgraphplugin_install uninstall makes it go away.

-- TerryRankine - 10 Mar 2009

Discussion and Answer

  DB<3> v
399     # this is concatenated to _action to determine the name of the procedure.
400     # Dispatcher methods return a boolean to indicate whether to generate a
401     # link back to the main page at the end.
402==>b if ($sanityUI->insane() || $query->param('abort')) {
403:        print $sanityStatement;
404     } else {
405
406:        $action =~ s/\W//g;
407:        my $method = '_action'.$action;
408
  DB<3> n
TWiki::(./bin/configure:406):       $action =~ s/\W//g;
  DB<3>
TWiki::(./bin/configure:407):       my $method = '_action'.$action;
  DB<3>
TWiki::(./bin/configure:409):       die "Undefined action $action" unless defined(&$method);
  DB<3>
TWiki::(./bin/configure:412):       my $reroute = &$method();
  DB<3>
<h1>Configuration</h1>Attempt to reload Scalar/Util.pm aborted.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl/5.10/overload.pm line 94, <DATA> line 1.
Debugged program terminated.  Use q to quit or R to restart,
  use o inhibit_exit to avoid stopping after program termination,
  h q, h R or h o to get additional info.
  DB<3>

I cant use perl debugger - i have no idea what i am doing....

let me know what info you want

-- TerryRankine - 10 Mar 2009

Do you have the CPAN:Digest::MD5 pre-requisite installed? To see if it is, check /bin/configure > CGI Setup (read only) > Perl modules. Hopefully that's before the point where /bin/configure is aborting on you...

-- SeanCMorgan - 11 Mar 2009

Closing this question after more than 30 days of inactivity. Feel free to reopen if needed. Consider engaging one of the TWiki consultants if you need timely help. We invite you to get involved with the community, it is more likely you get community support if you support the open source project!

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-04-17

I have the same problem, please open de bug, thank you

-- MikiVazquez - 2009-04-27

Re-opened. Please provide more details.

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-04-27

Closing this question after more than 30 days of inactivity. Feel free to reopen if needed. Consider engaging one of the TWiki consultants if you need timely help. We invite you to get involved with the community, it is more likely you get community support if you support the open source project!

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-06-02

have a look a the changelog here: http://foswiki.org/Extensions/DirectedGraphPlugin

25 Mar 2009: Foswikitask:Item1201, Foswikitask:Item1360 - Configure script fails on perl 5.10.

Please merge the changes.

-- TerryRankine - 2009-07-14

Thank you Terry for pointing this out. Open source is about using and contributing. Terry, I invite you to get involved with the TWiki community and fix the plugin. ReadmeFirst has the details how to get started with extension development. Our community is growing, Ian Kluft joined us yesterday, he plans to post an add-on to push content into TWiki via Webfetch.

I created TWikibug:Item6319 to track this item.

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-09-05

This should be fixed now with latest release of DirectedGraphPlugin (see TWikibug:Item6505).

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-06-26

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