[Catalyst] Strange error

Jonathan Rockway jon at jrock.us
Mon Sep 18 17:05:01 CEST 2006


It looks like the site is even more broken now, so I'm going to download
the code and see if I can reproduce the bug.  This will have to wait
until tonight (GMT-0600), but I'll keep you posted.

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway

Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:47:56AM -0500, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
>> I didn't see a reply to this, so could you please run your app in the
>> debugger and give us a backtrace?  Is this a reproduceable bug, or
>> random?  If reproduceable, how does one produce the bug?  If not, any
> 
> It appears to be random.
> 
>> other details about when this occurs (output from myapp_server.pl
>> running in debug mode would help). Are you using mod_perl?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> If so, are
>> you using mpm_worker?  (If not mpm_worker, which mpm?)  Does the problem
>> occur with myapp_server?  Does it occur with fastcgi?
> 
> Unfortunatly I have only limited user rights on the machine CPANTS is
> running. I'll check with the sysadmin, though.
> 
>> As a user of CPANTS, I notice that reloading the page often makes the
>> "please come back later" message go away, so I think there's some
>> thread-safety issue or race condition going on.  The fact that your
>> server is dying means something is very very wrong with your app :)
> 
> That might be the case. CPANTS::Site started with some ancient version
> of Catlyst and I might have missed some issues when updating.
> 
>> Finally, any chance you could enable Debug mode on the real CPANTS site?
>>  Having that information available to me would help me learn about the
>> problem.  (I don't want to setup a full CPANTS production environment
>> and CPAN mirror unless I have to :)
> 
> debug-mode is enabled now
> 



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