Centos 5.1 update blew up RT

We performed server updates last weekend, including updating Centos 5.0
to 5.1, plus all of the yum updates that go with it. Now, RT is not
working.

We don’t see any messages that stand out in our rt.log or in /var/log/.

Has anyone encountered this problem before?

Craig Patterson
Application Developer/SDE Administrator
Northrop Grumman IT/City of Grand Rapids
(616)456-3645
crpatter@grcity.us

Patterson, Craig wrote:

We performed server updates last weekend, including updating Centos 5.0
to 5.1, plus all of the yum updates that go with it. Now, RT is not
working.

We don’t see any messages that stand out in our rt.log or in /var/log/.

Has anyone encountered this problem before?

What errors do you get? The bit that lets you know it’s not working…
Kind Regards,

Mike Peachey, IT
Tel: +44 114 281 2655
Fax: +44 114 281 2951
Jennic Ltd, Furnival Street, Sheffield, S1 4QT, UK
Comp Reg No: 3191371 - Registered In England

What, exactly, is RT doing?

Mathew

Patterson, Craig wrote:

We performed server updates last weekend, including updating Centos 5.0
to 5.1, plus all of the yum updates that go with it. Now, RT is not
working.

We don’t see any messages that stand out in our rt.log or in /var/log/.

Has anyone encountered this problem before?

Craig Patterson
Application Developer/SDE Administrator
Northrop Grumman IT/City of Grand Rapids
(616)456-3645
crpatter@grcity.us


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Something has to be showing up somewhere. Have you looked at the database logs?

Mathew

Patterson, Craig wrote:

Nothing, just a blank screen.

I’ve cleared the mason cache, stopped apache, and started apache with no
luck.

It’s really strange, there doesn’t seem to be any error messages
anywhere that I can find.

Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: Mathew Snyder [mailto:mathew.snyder@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:02 AM
To: Patterson, Craig
Cc: RT Users
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Centos 5.1 update blew up RT

What, exactly, is RT doing?

Mathew

Patterson, Craig wrote:

We performed server updates last weekend, including updating Centos
5.0
to 5.1, plus all of the yum updates that go with it. Now, RT is not
working.

We don’t see any messages that stand out in our rt.log or in
/var/log/.
Has anyone encountered this problem before?

Craig Patterson
Application Developer/SDE Administrator
Northrop Grumman IT/City of Grand Rapids
(616)456-3645
crpatter@grcity.us


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Mathew Snyder wrote:

Something has to be showing up somewhere. Have you looked at the database logs?

Also the apache error_log when starting Apache.

Kind Regards,

Mike Peachey, IT
Tel: +44 114 281 2655
Fax: +44 114 281 2951
Jennic Ltd, Furnival Street, Sheffield, S1 4QT, UK
Comp Reg No: 3191371 - Registered In England

I’m going to take a wild guess and say that this might fix it:

(As root)

perl -MCPAN -e’force install “Scalar::Util”'On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 08:51:51AM -0500, Patterson, Craig wrote:

We performed server updates last weekend, including updating Centos 5.0
to 5.1, plus all of the yum updates that go with it. Now, RT is not
working.

We don’t see any messages that stand out in our rt.log or in /var/log/.

Has anyone encountered this problem before?

Craig Patterson
Application Developer/SDE Administrator
Northrop Grumman IT/City of Grand Rapids
(616)456-3645
crpatter@grcity.us


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Nothing, just a blank screen.

I’ve cleared the mason cache, stopped apache, and started apache with no
luck.

It’s really strange, there doesn’t seem to be any error messages
anywhere that I can find.

CraigFrom: Mathew Snyder [mailto:mathew.snyder@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:02 AM
To: Patterson, Craig
Cc: RT Users
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Centos 5.1 update blew up RT

What, exactly, is RT doing?

Mathew

Patterson, Craig wrote:

We performed server updates last weekend, including updating Centos
5.0
to 5.1, plus all of the yum updates that go with it. Now, RT is not
working.

We don’t see any messages that stand out in our rt.log or in
/var/log/.

Has anyone encountered this problem before?

Craig Patterson
Application Developer/SDE Administrator
Northrop Grumman IT/City of Grand Rapids
(616)456-3645
crpatter@grcity.us


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Success!

Thanks Jesse, that did the trick.

Thanks to everyone else who sent suggestions as well. Once again, I’m
indebted to the RT list.

Craig PattersonFrom: Jesse Vincent [mailto:jesse@bestpractical.com]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:13 AM
To: Patterson, Craig
Cc: RT Users
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Centos 5.1 update blew up RT

I’m going to take a wild guess and say that this might fix it:

(As root)

perl -MCPAN -e’force install “Scalar::Util”’

We performed server updates last weekend, including updating Centos
5.0
to 5.1, plus all of the yum updates that go with it. Now, RT is not
working.

We don’t see any messages that stand out in our rt.log or in
/var/log/.

Has anyone encountered this problem before?

Craig Patterson
Application Developer/SDE Administrator
Northrop Grumman IT/City of Grand Rapids
(616)456-3645
crpatter@grcity.us


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Jesse, would you mind sharing how you came up with your theory?

James Moseley

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Success!

Thanks Jesse, that did the trick.

Thanks to everyone else who sent suggestions as well. Once again, I’m
indebted to the RT list.

Craig PattersonFrom: Jesse Vincent [mailto:jesse@bestpractical.com]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:13 AM
To: Patterson, Craig
Cc: RT Users
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Centos 5.1 update blew up RT

I’m going to take a wild guess and say that this might fix it:

(As root)

perl -MCPAN -e’force install “Scalar::Util”’

We performed server updates last weekend, including updating Centos
5.0
to 5.1, plus all of the yum updates that go with it. Now, RT is not
working.

We don’t see any messages that stand out in our rt.log or in
/var/log/.

Has anyone encountered this problem before?

Craig Patterson
Application Developer/SDE Administrator
Northrop Grumman IT/City of Grand Rapids
(616)456-3645
crpatter@grcity.us


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jmoseley@corp.xanadoo.com wrote:

Jesse, would you mind sharing how you came up with your theory?

James Moseley

Success!

Thanks Jesse, that did the trick.

Thanks to everyone else who sent suggestions as well. Once again, I’m
indebted to the RT list.

Craig Patterson

-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Vincent [mailto:jesse@bestpractical.com]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:13 AM
To: Patterson, Craig
Cc: RT Users
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Centos 5.1 update blew up RT

I’m going to take a wild guess and say that this might fix it:

(As root)

perl -MCPAN -e’force install “Scalar::Util”’

RedHat (and therefore CentOS) tends to build perl with weakened
references off. This “breaks” Scalar::Util from RT’s requirements/point
of view.

Jeff Voskamp

The RedHat support just announced me they added the ‘weaken’ sub to perl 5.8.8 as part of RHEL v5 … I did not verify yet …

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