Doug Hunley wrote on Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 13:03:32 -0400:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> > Doug Hunley wrote on Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:55:02 -0400:
> >> Hey everyone,
> >> We're currently running Apache 2.2.x on an OS X server with SVN 1.6.x
> >> and have a mod_perl based authentication handler for SVN repo access.
> >> It works fine and has for many months. When we upgrade to 1.7.x, our
> >> commits fail with an Apache 500 error, and the logs show:
> >> [Wed May 16 22:38:58 2012] [error] Subroutine fatal redefined at
> >> /Library/Apache/HTTPD/2.2.11-flock/Perl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/darwin-thread-multi-2level/APR/Error.pm
> >> line 41.\nCompilation failed in require at (eval 22) line 1.\n
> >>
> >> If we disable the new httpv2 that comes with 1.7.x all this goes away
> >> and everything works exactly as it did under 1.6.x. We are not nesting
> >> <Location> directives, and that's the only real issue I've found so
> >> far that is similar to ours in the mailing list archive.
> >>
> >> Where do I begin troubleshooting this?
> >>
> >
> > Check where the 'other' definition of the subroutine 'fatal' is, and why
> > the two definitions conflict.
>
> The only definitions of fatal are:
> qa2:Perl root# grep -rn 'sub fatal ' *
> lib/perl5/5.8.9/Error.pm:41:sub fatal { die __PACKAGE__ . ": Can't
> handle '$_[3]'" }
> lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/darwin-2level/APR/Error.pm:41:sub fatal {
> die __PACKAGE__ . ": Can't handle '$_[3]'" }
> lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/darwin-thread-multi-2level/APR/Error.pm:41:sub
> fatal { die __PACKAGE__ . ": Can't handle '$_[3]'" }
> qa2:Perl root#
>
> which are all part of Perl or Apache itself, so this isn't too
> helpful. It also doesn't explain why making no code changes at all yet
The first match appears to be in Perl's own "Error" module, not in
Apache.
I'm not sure which two definitions conflict --- the system and APR one,
or the APR one with itself somehow.
> disabling httpv2 in subversion makes the error go away. Perhaps I'm
> still not understanding what I should be looking for. Can you
> elaborate based on the above? Thanks.
>
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Received on 2012-06-20 21:56:31 CEST