Re: gnatsweb problem installing on RedHat 6.2

[Jan Pompe]

Terje Trane wrote:
> 
> I have installet gnats 3.113 and I think I got it to work as it should, but
> now I try gnatsweb 2.6 on a RedHat 6.2 system.
> 
> After updating the CGI.pm and installing MIME::Base64 and realizing that I
> had to make a /etc/gnats-db.conf even though I haven't installed multiple
> databases the 'make test' succeded and I could run install.
> 
> Now I try http://<server>/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl and get a page telling me:
> 
> Software error:
> Function CGI::Object::cgi_error does not exist at
> /home/httpd/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl line 3059
> For help, please send mail to the webmaster (root@localhost), giving this
> error message and the time and date of the error.
> 
> And in the error log for Apache I get:
> [Thu Mar 15 16:10:44 2001] gnatsweb.pl: Name "main::global_no_cookies" used
> only
>  once: possible typo at /home/httpd/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl line 2996.
> [Thu Mar 15 16:10:44 2001] gnatsweb.pl: Function CGI::Object::cgi_error does
> not
>  exist at /home/httpd/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl line 3059
> 
> Being quite unfamiliar to Perl I need some help understanding the message.
> 
> For your convenience, here is a part of the code:
> 
>    3045 sub main
>    3046 {
>    3047   # Load gnatsweb-site.pl if present.  Die if there are errors;
>    3048   # otherwise the person who wrote gnatsweb-site.pl will never know
> it.
>    3049   do './gnatsweb-site.pl' if (-e './gnatsweb-site.pl');
>    3050   die $@ if $@;
>    3051
>    3052   # Make sure nobody tries to swamp our server with a huge file
> attachment.
>    3053   # Has to happen before 'new CGI'.
>    3054   $CGI::POST_MAX = $site_post_max if defined($site_post_max);
>    3055
>    3056   # Create the query object.  Check to see if there was an error,
> which
>    3057   # happens if the post exceeds POST_MAX.
>    3058   $q = new CGI;
>    3059   if ($q->cgi_error())
>    3060   {
>    3061     print $q->header(-status=>$q->cgi_error());
>    3062           $q->start_html('Error');
>    3063     page_heading('Initialization failed', 'Error');
>    3064     print $q->h3('Request not processed: ', $q->cgi_error());
>    3065     exit();
>    3066   }
>    3067
>    3068   $sn = $q->script_name;
>    3069   my $cmd = $q->param('cmd') || ''; # avoid perl -w warning
>    3070
> 
> (POST_MAX and also site_post_max exist two places in the code, all are in
> the extract above).
> 
> Any ideas? How do I go on debugging? What info do you need to help me?
> 
> I don't need a gnatsweb-site.pl if gnatsweb and gnatsd runs on the same
> host, right?
> install says:
>  3. If your gnats server is on the same host as your web server,
>        skip this step.  If not, create 'gnatsweb-site.pl', the site
>        configuration file.  Read gnatsweb.pl, and follow the directions.
>        Basic configuration requires only that you specify the host +
>        port number of your gnats server.
> 
> Anyway, I made one and still the same error.
> 
> The 'make test' said
> CGI version 2.56 required--this is only version 2.46
> so I looked for a newer and found a version 3.01 at
> http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/cgi_docs.html
> I downloaded CGI.pm-3.01.tar.gz unpacked it and ran "perl Makefile.PL"
> Then 'make test' ran (only complaining about MIME::Base64 that I installed
> using the suggestion in the "install"-file in gnuweb-2.6.tar.gz.)
> 
> Was this the wrong file?

Later version of CGI.pm have, as I recall some messages regarding it,
broken gatsweb. 
the error message is  telling us the object '$q' has not been created or
that the method
CGI::cgi_error does not exist within CGI.pm. Check with 

$ perldoc CGI 

to see if this has changed.  However the I suspect the obje has not been
created because
there is a line 


use CGI 2.56 qw/:standard :netscape/;

putting in a line near the top will perhaps provide more info.

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
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