Re: So, anyone knows wtf Apache.pm is? Was: Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:03:37PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:32:23AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > > On Wed 14 Mar 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > > > > Hmm, interesting... Why tf did I install apache-perl in the first place? > > > > Because the combination apac

RE: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-16 Thread Mullins, Ron
#: One thing I now realize I *am* apparently guilty of -- and that is #: having too high an expectation of what Debian is capable of #: delivering #: from upgrades such as testing. I'd say that unfortunately, you are guilty of not realizing the purpose of Testing. Testing exists to make mostly st

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-15 Thread Martin WHEELER
(I'm not subscribed to this list, due to volume of traffic; but was advised today to follow up the thread via archives. Please cc any further comments/responses to me personally off-list. Thanks.) Many thanks to all who responded both on- and off-list; particularly those who pointed out the prob

Re: So, anyone knows wtf Apache.pm is? Was: Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-15 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:32:23AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Wed 14 Mar 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > > Hmm, interesting... Why tf did I install apache-perl in the first place? > > Because the combination apache + mod-perl had/has(?) a pretty bad memory > leak? Which was why apache-per

Re: So, anyone knows wtf Apache.pm is? Was: Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-15 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 14 Mar 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > Hmm, interesting... Why tf did I install apache-perl in the first place? Because the combination apache + mod-perl had/has(?) a pretty bad memory leak? Which was why apache-perl was created in the first place. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PR

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 06:22:28PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > But I doubt whether any developer could reproduce this system exactly > > without an accurate image of my machine state; so I'll start with the > > big problem (apache) and try to send in a fuller description of all the > > problem

Re: So, anyone knows wtf Apache.pm is? Was: Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:39:53PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:17:08PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > ... > > Have you tried running apache (not apache-perl) and loading mod_perl? > > It looks to me like you've got some problem caused by the prel 5.6 > > upgrade. > >

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 11:25:26PM +, Martin WHEELER wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Joey Hess wrote: ... > > And things broke. This is a suprise? > > Yes. > Shouldn't it be? Please explain. > (This is the method I have used to incrementally upgrade my installation > for the past two years -- w

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > It's like this. You upgraded to a not-yet-released, beta quality version > of debian. This I *now* know. Before upgrading I was given to understand that testing was a relatively problem-free upgrade to undertake -- not the rat's nest of incompatibilities a

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 05:40:29PM +, Martin WHEELER wrote: > > > He upgraded > > from a Potato 2.2r2 system to current "testing" and most things broke in > > serious > > ways, such that he swears he will never again move from stable releases. > > And *how*. > > NEVER again. (Certainly n

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Chris Bates
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 5:40 pm, Martin WHEELER wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > He upgraded > > from a Potato 2.2r2 system to current "testing" and most things broke > > in serious ways, such that he swears he will never again move from > > stable releases. > > And

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Chris Bates wrote: > Debian has two beautiful aspects (speaking as a refugee from NT and > RedHat): it is very conservative and hence very stable; agreed -- this is why I have been using it since 1996 > and apt-get install > is one of the neatest ideas I've seen. likewise -

Re: So, anyone knows wtf Apache.pm is? Was: Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:17:08PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: ... > Have you tried running apache (not apache-perl) and loading mod_perl? > It looks to me like you've got some problem caused by the prel 5.6 > upgrade. Hmm, interesting... Why tf did I install apache-perl in the first place? I p

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Joey Hess
It's like this. You upgraded to a not-yet-released, beta quality version of debian. You seem to have done some pretty horrendous hacking to work around dependancy problems, instead of reporting them: > This I declined; and proceeded to (re-)install packages individually > from an apt-get --just-pr

Re: So, anyone knows wtf Apache.pm is? Was: Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 01:23:02PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Ok, I'm not in the mood for flamefests today so here's a serious question: > > apache here fails to start with (this is from error.log) > > [Wed Mar 14 12:36:15 2001] [warn] pid file /var/run/apache.pid overwritten -- > Unclean sh

So, anyone knows wtf Apache.pm is? Was: Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Ok, I'm not in the mood for flamefests today so here's a serious question: apache here fails to start with (this is from error.log) [Wed Mar 14 12:36:15 2001] [warn] pid file /var/run/apache.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? Apache.pm failed to load!. Ok, here's the li

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 05:40:29PM +, Martin WHEELER wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > I've had to suffer this one - providing telephone support and advice over > > a week plus to an old and valued friend :) [Hi Martin :) ] > > [Hi, Andy! Just about to put this one

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Martin WHEELER
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I've had to suffer this one - providing telephone support and advice over > a week plus to an old and valued friend :) [Hi Martin :) ] [Hi, Andy! Just about to put this one to the list but you beat me to it.] > He upgraded > from a Potato 2.2r

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:41:42PM -0600, Chad C. Walstrom wrote: > bash$ at /var/lib/dpkg/info/apache.md5sums | \ ^^ that would be "cat" (missing 'c') > > sed -e 's/usr/\/usr/g' | md5sum -v -c cu Torsten pgpCVF847yyIX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-13 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:41:42PM -0600, Chad C. Walstrom wrote: > Redirecting further discussion of this user-based problem to > debian-user... I don't believe it is a user-based problem. It's not the first post saying "perl upgrade broke my apache" -- unless I'm getting e-mail from a parallel u

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-13 Thread Chad C. Walstrom
Redirecting further discussion of this user-based problem to debian-user... On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:29:02PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > FWIW I installed minimal potato on my box here, upgraded to woody, > _then_ installed apache and it worked fine. I run apt-get every > morning and Apache wa