On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 14:15 +0100, Tosh Cooey wrote: > I'm not quite ready to declare victory, but I think installing DBD from > source and getting more recent versions of DBD was the problem, and it > seems there's a lot of little things going wrong with DBD. > > What's going on there? When did DBD::mysql become so problematic? It > used to run so flawless, even back in the day when you would have to > choose between mysql and msql during the install...
Are you using the same version of Perl and gcc that all the rest of your stack are using? I compile the whole stack from source, and have none of the problems that you have described. (The only gotcha with DBD is don't use a dbh in the parent process, during startup, then try to reuse it in the child processes. That will cause a segfault) clint