Re: Trouble with DBI - bug or rewrite?

On 18/09/13 10:26, Martin J. Evans wrote:
> On 18/09/13 09:58, Michael Seaton wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I and a colleague have been trying to install Koha (an integrated
>> library system written in Perl) onto a server. While we've been mostly
>> successful in installing Koha, we keep getting the following message
>> whenever we try to log in:
>>
>> Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at
>> /usr/local/lib64/perl5/DBI.pm line 2059.
>>
>> While it might be possible to blame Koha for this error message, I
>> understand that it is only comparatively recently that this message
>> has started to appear ... and not just for Koha. The same error
>> message (referring to the same line in DBI.pm) has also recently been
>> reported for another program (Netdisco), as the following links to
>> discussion boards/blogs show:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30768434
>>
>> http://netdisco.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/manual-netdisco-installation.html
>>
>> My question is: has there been a recent rewrite of DBI.pm that the
>> developers of Koha (and Netdisco) have yet to account for, or is the
>> above error message the result of a bug in DBI.pm?
>>
>> I'd very much appreciate any advice or information anyone can offer on
>> this. (Many apologies if someone else has already posted on this
>> topic!)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael Seaton
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> It might help to know what version of DBI you are using. I see from the first link you gave, it looks like someone getting this issue is using DBI 1.625 and line 2059 is in the middle of the fetchall_arrayref method.
>
> I see in the Change log for 1.620:
>
> =head2 Changes in DBI 1.620 (svn r15300) 25th April 2012
>
>    Modified column renaming in fetchall_arrayref, added in 1.619,
>      to work on column index numbers not names (an incompatible change).
>    Reworked the fetchall_arrayref documentation.
>    Hash slices in fetchall_arrayref now detect invalid column names.
>
> I vaguely recollect this change. Does 1.619 work for you? Can you find the code which called fetchall_arrayref and show us it as I don't use Koha.
>
> Martin
>

Sorry, I just noticed the change in question was originally started in 1.619 so that should have been does 1.618 work for you?

Martin