Hi,
while trying to get Embperl ready with Perl 5.14.1, I found an the following message in the error log: Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x7fc218, Perl interpreter: 0x7cfdb0 during global destruction. I spent a lot of time to track it down and I think it's an mod_perl problem and not an Embperl one (because it also happens if Embperl is not loaded at all). It happens when the perl interpreter gets destructed for the first time, after parsing the configuration. No request is happing, simply starting Apache is enough to see the error. It has no negative impact, beside that it doesn't look very nice in the log file and that it let Embperl's test suite fail. I compiled Perl with DEBUG_LEAKING_SCALARS which shows the following in the error log: ---- ALLOCATED at -e:0 by (none) (parent 0x0); serial 356 SV = UNKNOWN(0xff) (0x7fc138) at 0x7fc218 REFCNT = 0 FLAGS = () Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x7fc218, Perl interpreter: 0x7cfdb0 during global destruction. ---- While the source location of the allocation seems to be uninitialized, the serial is quite useful. Setting a breakpoint inside the S_new_SV in sv.c shows where the SV is allocated: ---- (gdb) p sv->sv_debug_serial $2 = 356 (gdb) bt #0 S_new_SV (my_perl=0x7cfdb0, line=8667, func=0x7ffff5b6a070 "Perl_newSV_type", file=0x7ffff5b4dbc0 "sv.c") at sv.c:283 #1 0x00007ffff59d5b69 in Perl_newSV_type (my_perl=0x7cfdb0, type=SVt_PVAV) at sv.c:8667 #2 0x00007ffff5a3b8fb in Perl_new_stackinfo (my_perl=0x7cfdb0, stitems=128, cxitems=101) at scope.c:57 #3 0x00007ffff58fba33 in Perl_init_stacks (my_perl=0x7cfdb0) at perl.c:3882 #4 0x00007ffff58fc077 in perl_construct (my_perl=0x7cfdb0) at perl.c:280 #5 0x00007ffff58ae525 in modperl_startup (s=0x718f90, p=0x709138) at mod_perl.c:246 #6 0x00007ffff58ae4f0 in modperl_startup (s=0x718f90, p=0x709138) at mod_perl.c:207 #7 0x00007ffff58aeb0b in modperl_init (base_server=0x718f90, p=0x709138) at mod_perl.c:458 #8 0x00007ffff58aec6b in modperl_hook_init (pconf=0x709138, plog=<value optimized out>, ptemp=<value optimized out>, s=0x718f90) at mod_perl.c:631 #9 0x000000000044bbfd in ap_run_open_logs () #10 0x0000000000432285 in main () (gdb) ---- I stopped further digging inside mod_perl here, because I already spent several hours and I am not so familiar with mod_perl internals anymore, but somebody on the list might have an idea what's going wrong here. Here is the httpd.conf I used for this test: -------- HostnameLookups off ServerAdmin webmaster ServerRoot "/usr/msrc/embperl/test" ServerName localhost DocumentRoot "/usr/msrc/embperl/test" Listen 8531 User nobody Group root MinSpareServers 1 MaxSpareServers 30 StartServers 3 MaxClients 10 MaxRequestsPerChild 0 LoadModule perl_module "/opt/apache2.2.19-perl5141/modules/mod_perl.so" ErrorLog tmp/httpd.err.log PidFile tmp/httpd.pid TypesConfig conf/null LockFile tmp/httpd.lock ---- Everything is running on a 64Bit OpenSuSE 11.4, here is the output from perl -V ---- Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 14 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.6.37.1-1.2-xen, archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi uname='linux venus 2.6.37.1-1.2-xen #1 smp 2011-02-21 10:34:10 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux ' config_args='-des -A ccflags=-fPIC -DDEBUGGING -A ccflags=-DDEBUG_LEAKING_SCALARS -Dusedevel -Uinstallusrbinperl -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Dusemultiplicity -Dprefix=/opt/perlt5.14.1 -Dnoextensions=ODBM_File' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -DDEBUG_LEAKING_SCALARS -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2 -g', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -DDEBUG_LEAKING_SCALARS -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.5.1 20101208 [gcc-4_5-branch revision 167585]', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib/../lib64 /usr/lib/../lib64 /lib /usr/lib /lib64 /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib64 libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc -lgdbm_compat perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc libc=/lib/libc-2.11.3.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='2.11.3' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -g -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: DEBUGGING DEBUG_LEAKING_SCALARS MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV PERL_TRACK_MEMPOOL PERL_USE_DEVEL USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API Built under linux Compiled at Aug 6 2011 13:47:52 @INC: /opt/perlt5.14.1/lib/site_perl/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /opt/perlt5.14.1/lib/site_perl/5.14.1 /opt/perlt5.14.1/lib/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /opt/perlt5.14.1/lib/5.14.1 . ---- Apache is 2.2.19 and Perl, mod_perl and Apache are compiled from the sources. I am using prefork MPM. I would be happy if anybody has an idea how to fix this. Thanks Gerald
