Can't call method "_should_log" on an undefined value

RT Users
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Since upgrading perl to 5.40 I’ve been getting errors from my cron jobs.
I just upgraded RT to 5.0.8 (running on FreeBSD 14.2, RT installed from ports) but I’m still getting one error when I run rt-fulltext-indexer:

(in cleanup) Can't call method "_should_log" on an undefined value at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/Log/Dispatch.pm line 274, <DATA> line 960 during global destruction.

I’ve grepped through everything in rt code, and I can’t see it calling _should_log.
I found this in Log Dispatch changelog:

This version introduces some changes into the interface that will
cause incompatibility with any Log::Dispatch::Output interface you may
have created. However, it is fairly simple to fix. Simply change the
method in your subclass named ‘log’ to be called ‘log_message’. You
can also remove the line:

return unless $self->_should_log($params{level});

This is now done before the message ever gets to the Output subclass
(which is what it should have done in the first place, really.)

This was done so that I could allow per-Output object callbacks, a
feature which several people have requested and which seems useful
enough to warrant the breakage.

NOTE: This change is transparent if you are only using the Output
objects included with this distribution.

Any idea where to look?

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Are you running Oracle as your database?

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No, we’re running PostgreSQL

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I think I have the same problem. Also FreeBSD 14.2, RT 5.0.8 from ports and Perl 5.40; but MySQL rather than PostgreSQL.

I temporarily hacked would_log() in /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/Log/Dispatch.pm to use Carp and cluck() if $ is undefined. This resulted in the output below.

Searching for the “DBI dr handle … cleared whilst still active” error leads to these bugs:

I’m building a set of FreeBSD packages with Perl 5.38 to see whether that would be a workaround.

$ perl -Mdiagnostics=-t,-w /usr/local/sbin/rt-fulltext-indexer
at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/Log/Dispatch.pm line 276, line 960.
Log::Dispatch::_would_log(Log::Dispatch=HASH(0x22d7ac1db6f0), 3) called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/Log/Dispatch.pm line 167
Log::Dispatch::_log_with_num(Log::Dispatch=HASH(0x22d7ac1db6f0), 3, “level”, “warning”, “message”, “DBI dr handle 0x22d7ab4efdb0 cleared whilst still active, <DA”…) called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/Log/Dispatch.pm line 157
Log::Dispatch::log(undef, “level”, “warning”, “message”, “DBI dr handle 0x22d7ab4efdb0 cleared whilst still active, <DA”…) called at /usr/local/sbin/rt-fulltext-indexer line 0
eval {…} called at /usr/local/sbin/rt-fulltext-indexer line 0
(in cleanup) Can’t call method “_should_log” on an undefined value at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/Log/Dispatch.pm line 278, line 960 during global destruction.

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