After upgrading Perl, cannot reinstall modules - Cwd.so: Undefined symbol "perl_get_sv

Mark Kane mark at mkproductions.org
Sun Nov 27 20:42:21 GMT 2005


Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> On Sunday 27 November 2005 12:29, Mark Kane wrote:
> 
>>Michael C. Shultz wrote:
>>
>>>On Saturday 26 November 2005 22:20, Mark Kane wrote:
>>>
>>>>Michael C. Shultz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Saturday 26 November 2005 19:25, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Saturday 26 November 2005 18:48, Mark Kane wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Michael C. Shultz wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Saturday 26 November 2005 17:13, Mark Kane wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Hi everyone. I finally did a big portupgrade on a 4.9-RELEASE system
>>>>>>>>>today and I'm having some problems with Perl.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>I got it updated to 5.8.7 (was 5.6.x before), ran "use.perl port",
>>>>>>>>>and ran the perl-after-upgrade script which were all said in
>>>>>>>>>UPDATING. Now it's time to force upgrade/recompile the Perl modules
>>>>>>>>>for the new version.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Unfortunately this is where I get stuck:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>xeon1# portupgrade -f p5-\*
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>[snip]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>===>   p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7
>>>>>>>>>- found ===>   p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 depends on file:
>>>>>>>>>/usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 - found ===>  Configuring for
>>>>>>>>>p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10
>>>>>>>>>/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:
>>>>>>>>>/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/mach/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so: Undefined symbol
>>>>>>>>>"perl_get_sv"
>>>>>>>>>*** Error code 1
>>>>>>>>>------------------------------------
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>The remaining Perl modules that are supposed to be
>>>>>>>>>upgraded/recompiled either error out with the same message or are
>>>>>>>>>skipped because one that it requires errored out.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>I tried Googling for that error, but nothing came up. Other info
>>>>>>>>>that might be useful:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>xeon1# pkg_which /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/mach/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so
>>>>>>>>>perl-5.8.7
>>>>>>>>>-----
>>>>>>>>>xeon1# pkg_info | grep p5
>>>>>>>>>p5-Authen-SASL-2.04 Perl5 module for SASL authentication
>>>>>>>>>p5-Compress-Zlib-1.41 Perl5 interface to zlib compression library
>>>>>>>>>p5-DBD-mysql-2.1026_1 MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface
>>>>>>>>>(DBI) p5-DBI-1.38         The perl5 Database Interface.  Required
>>>>>>>>>for DBD::* modules
>>>>>>>>>p5-Digest-1.13      Modules that calculate message digests
>>>>>>>>>p5-Digest-MD5-2.27  Perl5 interface to the MD5 algorithm
>>>>>>>>>p5-HTML-Parser-3.31 Perl5 module for parse HTML tag
>>>>>>>>>p5-HTML-Tagset-3.03 Some useful data table in parsing HTML
>>>>>>>>>p5-MIME-Base64-2.20 Perl5 module for Base64 and Quoted-Printable
>>>>>>>>>encodings p5-Net-1.16,1       Perl5 modules to access and use
>>>>>>>>>network protocols p5-URI-1.25         Perl5 interface to Uniform
>>>>>>>>>Resource Identifier (URI) refere
>>>>>>>>>p5-libvorbis-0.04   Perl extension for Ogg Vorbis streams
>>>>>>>>>p5-libwww-5.69      Perl5 library for WWW access
>>>>>>>>>-----
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Thanks very much in advance as this is a production server which
>>>>>>>>>uses Perl all the time.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>-Mark
>>>>>>>>>FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE i386
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On a 4.11 system sysutils/portmanager has no problem with perl5.8 and
>>>>>>>>www/p5-HTML-Tagset, just tested it, not sure if it will run on 4.9
>>>>>>>>but you you may want to give it a try.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>-Mike
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thanks for the reply. I have never used portmanager, but I did give it
>>>>>>>a try like you said. Unfortunately it produced the same error when
>>>>>>>building that portupgrade did. I should also point out that I did try
>>>>>>>just a "make" from the port directory to see if it had something to
>>>>>>>do with portupgrade, and that failed with the same message about
>>>>>>>"perl_get_sv" as well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Here is the output from portmanager. I have omitted other errors that
>>>>>>>were about other Perl modules that were not installed via ports at
>>>>>>>all.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>xeon1# portmanager www/p5-HTML-Tagset
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>[snip]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>--------------------
>>>>>>>update p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10
>>>>>>>MGPMrUpdate 0.3.9_2 localProperty.command: #9 of 14  cd
>>>>>>>/usr/ports/www/p5-HTML-Tagset; make
>>>>>>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>>-- ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
>>>>>>>===>  Extracting for p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10
>>>>>>>=> MD5 Checksum OK for HTML-Tagset-3.10.tar.gz.
>>>>>>>===>   p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 -
>>>>>>>found ===>  Patching for p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10
>>>>>>>===>   p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 -
>>>>>>>found ===>   p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 depends on file:
>>>>>>>/usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 - found ===>  Configuring for
>>>>>>>p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10
>>>>>>>/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:
>>>>>>>/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/mach/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so: Undefined symbol
>>>>>>>"perl_get_sv"
>>>>>>>*** Error code 1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Stop in /usr/ports/www/p5-HTML-Tagset.
>>>>>>>MGPMrUpdate 0.3.9_2 error: make returned an error, adding
>>>>>>>/www/p5-HTML-Tagset to ignore.db
>>>>>>>reverting bsd.port.mk patch -=>cd /usr/ports/Mk; patch -R <
>>>>>>>/usr/local/share/portmanager/patch-bsd.port.mk-0.3.6;
>>>>>>>Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
>>>>>>>The text leading up to this was:
>>>>>>>--------------------------
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>|--- /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk  Tue Nov  8 01:02:51 2005
>>>>>>>|+++ bsd.port.mk        Wed Nov 16 02:16:57 2005
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>--------------------------
>>>>>>>Patching file bsd.port.mk using Plan A...
>>>>>>>Hunk #1 succeeded at 2049.
>>>>>>>done
>>>>>>>rCreateInstalledDbVerifyContentsFile 0.3.9_2 error: "@comment ORIGIN:"
>>>>>>>not found in /var/db/pkg/bsdpan-XML-Parser-2.34/+CONTENTS
>>>>>>>              bsdpan-XML-Parser-2.34 installation is corrupt!
>>>>>>>              recomend running "pkg_delete -f bsdpan-XML-Parser-2.34"
>>>>>>>then manually reinstalling this port
>>>>>>>--------------------
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>-Mark
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I dug a little and think have figured the problem but not positive.  I
>>>>>>think your running perl configure from the original perl and not the
>>>>>>one
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>from ports.
>>>>>
>>>>>>Assuming you use csh as your shell try in .cshrc to change the order of
>>>>>>the path staement so it looks at /usr /local directories first.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>from:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>set path =
>>>>>>(/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin
>>>>>>/usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin $HOME/bin /home/mike/SCRIPTS /root/bin )
>>>>>>
>>>>>>to
>>>>>>
>>>>>>set path =
>>>>>>( /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin
>>>>>>/usr/games /usr/X11R6/bin $HOME/bin /home/mike/SCRIPTS /root/bin )
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-Mike
>>>>>
>>>>>I am nearly certain your using /usr/bin/perl
>>>>>instead of /usr/local/bin/perl, here is how to test:
>>>>>
>>>>>cd
>>>>>/usr/ports/www/p5-HTML-Tagset/work/HTML-Tagset-3.10
>>>>>
>>>>>try
>>>>>perl Makefile.PL
>>>>>and I bet you get the error
>>>>>and if you try:
>>>>>
>>>>>/usr/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL
>>>>>
>>>>>I bet it works ok.....
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for your replies. Your explanation makes sense about the /usr/bin
>>>>vs /usr/local/bin, however if I do: /usr/bin/perl --version, I get:
>>>>
>>>>This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i386-freebsd-64int
>>>>(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
>>>>
>>>>If I do: /usr/local/bin/perl --version, I get:
>>>>
>>>>This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i386-freebsd-64int
>>>>(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
>>>>
>>>>Looks like /usr/bin/perl is a link to another file:
>>>>
>>>>xeon1# ls -l /usr/bin/perl
>>>>lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  24 Nov 26 18:32 /usr/bin/perl ->
>>>>/usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7
>>>>
>>>>Finally, I tried what you said anyway:
>>>>
>>>>xeon1# perl Makefile.PL
>>>>/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:
>>>>/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/mach/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so: Undefined symbol
>>>>"perl_get_sv"
>>>>xeon1# /usr/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL
>>>>/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:
>>>>/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/mach/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so: Undefined symbol
>>>>"perl_get_sv"
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>-Mark
>>>
>>>Beats me what is wrong then.  This is from running:  perldoc
>>>perl58delta.pod
>>>
>>> Perl_get_sv
>>>
>>>       You may get errors like ’Undefined symbol "Perl_get_sv"’ or "can’t
>>>       resolve symbol ’Perl_get_sv’", or the symbol may be "Perl_sv_2pv".
>>>       This probably means that you are trying to use an older shared
>>>Perl library (or extensions linked with such) with Perl 5.8.0 executable.
>>>Perl used to have such a subroutine, but that is no more the case. Check
>>>your shared library path, and any shared Perl libraries in those
>>>directories.
>>>
>>>       Sometimes this problem may also indicate a partial Perl 5.8.0
>>>installa‐ tion, see "Mac OS X dyld undefined symbols" for an example and
>>>how to deal with it.
>>>
>>>
>>>-Mike
>>
>>Well I tried to find some more info and ended up doing a force reinstall
>>of perl. I also ran "use.perl port" and perl-after-upgrade again (which
>>didn't show anything as moved or needed to be done so I did not continue
>>with -f).
>>
>>Now there is a different error when trying to force upgrade/recompile
>>the perl modules:
>>
>>===>   p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 -
>>found ===>  Configuring for p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10
>>Checking if your kit is complete...
>>Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>*** Error code 139
>>
>>Stop in /usr/ports/www/p5-HTML-Tagset.
>>
>>Any ideas? Again, this is a live production server that heavily relies
>>on Perl.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>-Mark
> 
> 
> 
> I need to see more context, are you manually trying to install p5-HTML-Tagset
> or are you using portupgrade/portmanager for example.
> 
> -Mike

I am doing as /usr/ports/UPDATING says to upgrade/reinstall all the Perl
modules, which is to do:

portupgrade -f p5-\*

p5-HTML-Tagset is just the first one that it tries, and it produces this:

--->  Upgrading 'p5-HTML-Tagset-3.03' to 'p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10'
(www/p5-HTML-Tagset)
--->  Building '/usr/ports/www/p5-HTML-Tagset'
===>  Cleaning for perl-5.8.7
===>  Cleaning for p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10
===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
===>  Extracting for p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10
=> MD5 Checksum OK for HTML-Tagset-3.10.tar.gz.
===>   p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 - found
===>  Patching for p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10
===>   p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 - found
===>   p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.7 - found
===>  Configuring for p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10
Checking if your kit is complete...
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
*** Error code 139

Stop in /usr/ports/www/p5-HTML-Tagset.
** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa
/tmp/portupgrade52316.0 make
** Fix the problem and try again.
--------------------

It attempts the other Perl modules as well but fails with the same. Here
is the final report:

--------------------
** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
        ! www/p5-HTML-Tagset (p5-HTML-Tagset-3.03)      (coredump)
        ! converters/p5-MIME-Base64 (p5-MIME-Base64-2.20)       (coredump)
        * security/p5-Digest (p5-Digest-1.13)
        ! security/p5-Authen-SASL (p5-Authen-SASL-2.04) (coredump)
        ! databases/p5-DBI (p5-DBI-1.38)        (coredump)
        ! audio/p5-libvorbis (p5-libvorbis-0.04)        (coredump)
        * net/p5-URI (p5-URI-1.25)
        * net/p5-Net (p5-Net-1.16,1)
        * www/p5-HTML-Parser (p5-HTML-Parser-3.31)
        * databases/p5-DBD-mysql (p5-DBD-mysql-2.1026_1)
        ! security/p5-Digest-MD5 (p5-Digest-MD5-2.27)   (coredump)
        ! archivers/p5-Compress-Zlib (p5-Compress-Zlib-1.41)    (coredump)
        * www/p5-libwww (p5-libwww-5.69)
--->  Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 6 skipped and 7 failed
--------------------

Thanks

-Mark

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