Re: [mp1] "Can't locate object method 'handler' via package 'handler'..."

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Andrew Green wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:00:34 -0500, Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
> 
>>Andrew, any chance you could minimise the script so that you can 
>>still reproduce the problem...
> 
> 
> Many thanks for responding, Stas.  I'll certainly try.
> 
> I fear that the fact that the problem is really very intermittent might 
> hamper this, however.  I should also probably have pointed out that 
> there's a PostReadRequestHandler and a TransHandler in the config as 
> well, which I guess may make a huge difference!
> 
> To be honest, I was hoping that since the error is so bizarre, it might 
> be easily recognised by someone.

Search the list archives. I think that error was reported multiple times 
in different contexts. You may find some useful tips in followups to those 
reports.

> I'm restarting Apache a lot at the moment, as I'm doing some 
> development work (on an different application, using a different 
> virtual server, but nonetheless with the same Apache).  I have a 
> nagging suspicion that the "handler" error happens after certain 
> restarts -- a further restart seems to clear it.  But even then, it 
> doesn't happen 100% of the time.
> 
> What may also be relevant is that on occasional restarts, the log fills 
> with several pages of entries like this:
> 
> 	Attempt to free temp prematurely: SV 0xac6c488 during global
> 	destruction.
> 
> (the SV numbers are different for each).  I suspect that the problems 
> occur after a restart that results in those errors.  The log from 
> yesterday corroborates this, but I don't yet have enough evidence to be 
> sure.

That's normal if you get this during a hard restart. Apache gives the 
procs a few secs to gracefully shutdown and then it send SIGTERM which 
brutally kills the servers. Perl freaks out and starts raining cats and dogs.

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