Greetings fellow monks and initiates. I recently ran into some issues while upgrading mod_perl. On one of our webservers which was used mostly for development I noticed the pages that used the actual perlHandler would give out a segfault. When i run the perl scripts that actually generate the html it would just coredump. Ok, definetly not what I expected, so I started tracing the problem, and running the scripts with warnings just gave me the message "object method request() not found in Apache.pm". In the script itself I used: "my $r = Apache->request;" Now that sounded strange enough so I debugged it at first with the perl debugger, which basically led me nowhere, so I used Data::Dumper to printout the possible methods in "Apache.pm". At this point another perl hacker joined me to boggle at the problem, pointing out that I probably should just dump it and log everything, but after that restore the server back to a "stable" state. Now I've bumped into this problem a few times before, but I've never in fact had so good logs left of everything that I could have fully debugged out what was the real problem. Has anyone else ran into this particular problem?

In reply to Weird(?) behavoiur with mod_perl 1.26 by drifter

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