Re: I think AuthCookie(DBI) is causing segfaults?

Which MPM are you using?

- Perrin

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Tosh Cooey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a standard mod_perl setup, application is a server and mysql is
> another.
>
> I use AuthCookieDBI
> http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MATISSE/Apache2-AuthCookieDBI-2.05/lib/Apache2/AuthCookieDBI.pm
> for authentication against the DB.
>
> If the application has not been used for a while, a few hours, then when a
> user tries to connect Apache segfaults.  Here is debug output:
>
> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] auth_type DISKO::AUTH
> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] r=Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x81f6f290)
> authtype=DISKO::AUTH
> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] auth_name berlin3
> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] ses_key_cookie <cookiestuff>
> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] uri /clientID/index.pl
> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] user authenticated as tosh
> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] authorize() for /clientID/index.pl
> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] authorize user=tosh type=DISKO::AUTH
> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [error] requirement := valid-user,
> [Wed Nov 10 22:37:04 2010] [notice] child pid 17510 exit signal Segmentation
> fault (11)
>
> DISKO::AUTH is where I override:
> *Apache2::AuthCookieDBI::_dbi_connect = sub {
> the connect() sub so I can do some on-the-fly modification of DSN names.
>
> DBI->connect_cached is used if that is of importance.
>
> My understanding of DBI is that things like ping() and reconnecting are all
> taken care of automagically, so I'm a bit baffled by this, especially as I
> have never had this happen on somewhat similar application setups.
>
> Is there something wrong with Apache2::AuthCookieDBI::_dbi_connect ?
>
> Or should I just cron a task to ping the application every hour?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tosh
>
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>