I am running 3.8.1 under CentOS 5.2 without issues, but I think I dodged your bullet early when I was setting up the system.
In the past to avoid issues related to the distro mucking with my perl install I would replace it's perl with one built from src which I would update via CPAN. However I wanted to get away from that with CentOS 5.x and try to use just the distro installation, so I gave it a shot and ran into the problem of the distro updating a perl module with an earlier one than I already had installed. My solution was to leave the stock perl alone and let it update what it wants, but also install a copy from src into /usr/local/ which is what mod_perl/RT references instead of the distro installation. So now I can be sure that my critical perl install will remain untouched unless I touch it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:40:13 -0600 > From: "Todd Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [rt-users] CentOS 5.2 updates broke RT (apache) 3.8.1 > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello > > I am in the process of doing a proof of concept for RT 3.8.1 running inside a > VM session on my laptop with CENTOS 5.2. > > I have it up and working and was alerted by the OS that there were 26 updates > for me to apply. I have run several snapshots through the process of > building RT - so that I don't break it with out any recourse - so I ran the > updates. I noticed there were some Perl updates and let them go on anyway. > Needless to say after restarting Apache - just to see if things still worked > - apache won't start anymore. > > Error is "httpd failed: The error was: Starting httpd: [FAILED] > > Here are the updates that were applied (from syslog) > > Sep 24 11:48:17 pope yum: Updated: perl - 4:5.8.8-15.el5_2.1.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:18 pope yum: Updated: perl-Net-SSLeay - 1.32-1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:21 pope yum: Updated: perl-Net-DNS - 0.63-1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:22 pope yum: Updated: perl-IO-Zlib - 1.09-1.el5.rf.noarch > Sep 24 11:48:23 pope yum: Updated: perl-Archive-Tar - 1.38-1.el5.rf.noarch > Sep 24 11:48:23 pope yum: Updated: perl-IO-Socket-SSL - 1.13-1.el5.rf.noarch > Sep 24 11:48:24 pope yum: Installed: perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib - > 2.011-1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:25 pope yum: Installed: perl-IO-Compress-Base - > 2.011-1.el5.rf.noarch > Sep 24 11:48:25 pope yum: Updated: perl-HTML-Tagset - 3.20-1.el5.rf.noarch > Sep 24 11:48:26 pope yum: Updated: perl-HTML-Parser - 3.56-1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:36 pope yum: Installed: glib - 1:1.2.10-20.el5.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:37 pope yum: Installed: gtk+ - 1:1.2.10-56.el5.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:40 pope yum: Updated: spamassassin - 3.2.5-1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:40 pope yum: Installed: perl-IO-Compress-Zlib - > 2.011-1.el5.rf.noarch > Sep 24 11:48:41 pope yum: Updated: perl-Compress-Zlib - 2.011-1.el5.rf.noarch > Sep 24 11:48:41 pope yum: Installed: perl-Crypt-PasswdMD5 - > 1.3-1.2.el5.rf.noarch > Sep 24 11:48:41 pope yum: Updated: perl-IO-Socket-INET6 - 2.54-1.el5.rf.noarch > Sep 24 11:48:43 pope yum: Updated: lftp - 3.7.3-1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:43 pope yum: Installed: perl-Net-Daemon - 0.43-1.el5.rf.noarch > Sep 24 11:48:44 pope yum: Installed: perl-PlRPC - 0.2020-1.el5.rf.noarch > Sep 24 11:48:46 pope yum: Updated: perl-DBI - 1.605-1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:48 pope yum: Updated: subversion - 1.5.2-0.1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:49 pope yum: Updated: nmap - 2:4.20-1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:50 pope yum: Updated: libwpd - 0.8.14-1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:51 pope yum: Updated: dstat - 0.6.8-1.el5.rf.noarch > Sep 24 11:48:51 pope yum: Updated: udftools - 1.0.0b3-3.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:51 pope yum: Updated: mtr - 2:0.74-1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:52 pope yum: Updated: cadaver - 0.22.5-1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:52 pope yum: Updated: nmap-frontend - 2:4.20-1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:53 pope yum: Updated: rsync - 3.0.4-1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:54 pope yum: Updated: perl-BSD-Resource - 1.2901-1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:57 pope yum: Updated: iso-codes - 1.0a-1.el5.rf.noarch > Sep 24 11:48:58 pope yum: Installed: gdk-pixbuf - 1:0.22.0-25.el5.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:58 pope yum: Updated: flash-plugin - 9.0.124.0-1.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:48:59 pope yum: Updated: rdesktop - 1.5.0-0.el5.rf.i386 > Sep 24 11:49:00 pope yum: Updated: syslinux - 3.71-1.el5.rf.i386 > > My reason for posting is to know what modules I need to be careful with in > the future as to what will break RT. Can anyone tell me which updates > shouldn't be run? Anything specific from the list above? I've reverted to > my saved snapshot and it's back up again and I did it once more to verify > that the updates are what broke it - and it is the culprit. > > If this goes into production - I want to be informed as to what > updates/patches can go on easily to keep the OS up to date and what others I > need to stay away from completely - or just be leary of. > > Thanks - there are some great people on this list that PM'd me with a lot of > great help. > > -Todd Christensen > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-users/attachments/20080924/e69298c3/attachment.htm > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > RT-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users > > > End of RT-Users Digest, Vol 54, Issue 82 > **************************************** > > > _______________________________________________ http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users Community help: http://wiki.bestpractical.com Commercial support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Discover RT's hidden secrets with RT Essentials from O'Reilly Media. 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