[mrtg] Re: Upgrade Failed

[Jeff Liebermann]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 05:39:09AM -0500, Bohnenstiehl, Joe wrote:
> I attempted to go from 2.9.14 to 2.9.17 on a Solaris-2.8 system.  Perl was
> upgraded on the system after the old version of MRTG was installed to
> perl-5.6.1
> 
> Any time I try to collect I get;
> >/usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg /opt/apache/htdocs/MRTG/Configs/STLS_SSNOC.cfg
> WARNING: Expected a number but got '#<unprintable BER type 0x81>'
> WARNING: Expected a number but got '#<unprintable BER type 0x81>'
> 
> I attempted to remove the 2.9.17 and go back to 2.9.14 and still get the
> same results.
> I also removed and re-installed the associated packages gd, libpng, zlib.
> 
> Has anyone seen this before 
> Joe Bohnenstiehl
> Wiliams Communications.

Nope, but I have a good guess.

You've got 2 versions of BER.pm and possibly some of the other
perl modules involved in MRTG.  Your Perl 5.6.1 either included
a BER.pm that was dumped in /usr/local/lib/perl/modules/ (or
some place similar).  My guess is that they're different versions.
Search for dupes of the stuff in .../mrtg/lib/mrtg-2/*.pm

Disclaimer:  This is only a guess.

If you get really stuck, there are some marginally documented
debug options in the mrtg perl script.  Near the top, you'll find:

Main::DEBUG=qw();
# DEBUG TARGETS
# cfg  - watch the config file reading
# dir  - directory mangeling
# base - basic program flow
# tarp - target parser
# snpo - snmp polling
# fork - forking view
# time - some timing info
# log  - logging of data via rateup or rrdtool

Change the first line to whatever debug level looks interesting
as in:
  Main::DEBUG=qw(base);

Do NOT try to do debugging with:
  RunAsDaemon: Yes
as it sends the output to an unattached terminal (or /dev/null).

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