I have a general purpose Apache 2.0 running mod_perl2. It works great with a single perl web application running, however when I have more than one I occasionally see the error message "Can't locate object method foo...", and then the script dies.

All of these errors generally occur in a module I wrote called dataManager, which is a wrapper for DBI that encapsulates sql requests into methods. Each application has their own copy of this module, with different methods depending on what DB it needs to access. I am not using any exotic modules, all modules/scripts/etc use strict, and there is a total of 1 'our' variable in the whole mess. The apache server is using prefork and spawning fifty or so processes, and this issue always seems to occur after some time (i.e., not when apache is starting up).

How can I go about troubleshooting this? The problem only comes up with multiple applications sometimes, but the only solution I've found is to restart apache. Any ideas on what I can try?

Thanks!

In reply to Intermittant module problem with mod_perl by jupe

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