So, looks like the fix for this bug to overcome an issue in a newer
version of perl is what broke you:
http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/bugs/4082/
Commenting out those lines when running with perl 5.8.8 is a reasonable
workaround. We have not tested the newer versions of xCAT with RHEL 5 in
awhile now.
Linda
From: "Russell Auld" <[email protected]>
To: "'xCAT Users Mailing list'" <[email protected]>
Date: 12/11/2014 11:04 PM
Subject: [xcat-user] Perl problem with v2.8.5 on RHEL5.5?
I upgraded from v2.8.4 to v2.8.5 on a RHEL5.5 machine - see [1] and [2]
below for version info.
When I tried to restart the xcatd daemon, I got the following error:
[root@head]# service xcatd restart
Restarting xCATd Unknown warnings category 'Sys::Syslog' at
/opt/xcat/sbin/xcatd line 109
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/xcat/sbin/xcatd line 109.
[FAILED]
The version of Perl is v5.8.8. I even tried updating the Perl package from
the patch server:
Updating:
perl x86_64 4:5.8.8-41.el5
Ultimately, I commented out both of the references to warnings
qw(Sys::Syslog) and the service started successfully.
use Sys::Syslog qw(:DEFAULT setlogsock);
openlog("xcatd",,"local4");
# turn off warnings for call to setlogsock. puts out warning message if
# syslog tcp port not defined in /etc/services. this can safely be
ignored.
#no warnings qw(Sys::Syslog);
setlogsock(["tcp","unix","stream"]);
#use warnings qw(Sys::Syslog);
Perhaps there?s some dependency on a newer version of Perl or Sys::Syslog
? see here for history:
http://perldoc.perl.org/Sys/Syslog.html#HISTORY
[1] - Old version:
[root@head]# lsxcatd -v
Version 2.8.4 (git commit ded873f998a889c91a169d3f870efdbebfb66243, built
Thu May 29 23:32:02 EDT 2014)
[2] - New version:
[root@head]# lsxcatd -v
Version 2.8.5 (git commit 51b69940b6fc7b54fc2a1f89330e69c8f830a3fc, built
Mon Sep 1 02:28:50 EDT 2014)
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