André Warnier wrote:
Hi. Don't take this as an expert response, but very superficially, I
can think of one kind of circumstance where "this happens randomly but
periodically" : if it would happen, for instance, at the first execution
of the script by a "new" apache child, freshly started. Then as this
same child re-executes the script multiple times, $r would always be
defined, until that child dies and a new child initialises and executes
the script for the first time, etc..
Of course there must be another underlying reason why $r is undefined,
but maybe the above can help thinking about it.
Actually, there are (at least) 2 old threads with similar intermittent
failures related to not getting $r objects correctly.
http://marc.info/?l=apache-modperl&m=117816111524789&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=apache-modperl&m=114226565622372&w=2
I personally haven't seen this sort of thing under mp2 though, just mp1,
and don't really have any real solution for it.
Adam