| Subject: | after upgrade to Smolder 1.51, smolder fails to start |
I have just upgraded from 1.40 to 1.51. The first time I ran "smolder"
after the upgrade it claimed it was upgraded the database. It's great
that the upgrade automatic.
However, then it just printed out a bunch of warnings and exited. I
expected it to stay running in the foreground.
Now when I try to start Smolder, it just prints out warnings and exits.
If I've done something wrong, I would expect it to print a diagnostic
message to help me fix the mistake. Here's a screenshot of what happens.
Thanks for helping me to get Smolder running again!
(scroll below for a piece of the solution)
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PERL5LIB=/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/bin/smolder
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Number/Format.pm line 539.
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Ok, I made some progress by setting an explicit --log_file. It would
have been helpful if Smolder printed to STDERR if no log file was given,
instead of sending them to /dev/null. Here are the warnings I was
getting:
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2009/12/22-10:58:15 Smolder::Server::NetServer0 (type
Net::Server::PreFork) starting! pid(62229)
Binding to TCP port 8080 on host localhost.localdomain
2009/12/22-10:58:15 Can't connect to TCP port 8080 on
localhost.localdomain [Invalid argument]
at line 88 in file
/home/mark/src/my_smolder/lib/perl5/Net/Server/Proto/TCP.pm
2009/12/22-10:58:15 Server closing!
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I made some progress by modifying Smolder/Conf.pm to change the default
of "localhost.localdomain" to be simply "localhost" (on FreeBSD 6.3).
This allowed the server to start.
I still couldn't access the application until I set HOSTNAME to be a
valid hostname (rather than localhost). I forget how I solved this with
1.40.
So, I'm up and running now but I hope my feedback is helpful to smooth
the upgrade process.