Re: mod_perl and XML::LibXML

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James Orr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an occaisional error happening with a module i'm using from a
> mod_perl script.  This is in my "new" method ...
> 
> my $ifh = IO::File->new($project_dir.'/info.xml') || die "Can't open
> info file: $!";
> $data->{'info'} = $parser->parse_fh($ifh);
> 
> And the error it gives is ...
> 
> read on filehandle failed: Can't use an undefined value as a symbol
> reference at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux/XML/LibXML.pm
> line 336.
> 
> By occaisional I mean that this error has occured 21 times in over
> 21,000 hits.

James, assuming that you don't use any eval {} blocks, try to install:

use Carp;
$SIG{__DIE__} = \&Carp::confess;

(e.g. at the startup or your script)

so the next time it fails you will see the exact calls trace. You can 
further expand that sighandler to dump more information to figure out what 
triggers the problem, helping you to define a reproduceable at will test 
program which can them be easily solved.




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