Re: installation errors

Ethan Joffe (ethan@toolfoundry.com)
Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:03:28 -0800


Additional info:
This machine is fully able to surf through a dial up connection, and lynx works fine as well.

At 07:47 AM 3/13/01 -0800, Ethan Joffe wrote:

>I am trying to install libwww v5.50 on a fresh install of Redhat 6.2, with perl5.6, and all the latest modules required for it. All the other modules have 100% success on their tests.
>I get the following when doing a make test on libwww (more text below):
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>/usr/local/bin/perl -e 'use Config; chdir q{blib/script}; foreach (qw(GET HEAD POST)) {' \ 
>-e 'unlink "$_";' \ 
>-e 'system("$Config{\"lns\"} lwp-request $_") && die; }' 
>/usr/local/bin/perl t/TEST 0 
>base/common-req.....ok 
>base/cookies........ok 
>base/date...........ok 
>base/headers-auth...ok 
>base/headers-etag...ok 
>base/headers-util...ok 
>base/headers........ok 
>base/listing........ok 
>base/mediatypes.....ok 
>base/message........ok 
>base/negotiate......ok 
>base/response.......ok 
>base/status.........ok 
>base/ua.............ok 
>html/form...........ok 
>robot/rules-dbm.....ok 13/13FAILED test 8 
>Failed 1/13 tests, 92.31% okay 
>robot/rules.........ok 
>robot/ua............NOK 7HTTP Server terminated 
>FAILED tests 1-3, 5, 7 
>Failed 5/7 tests, 28.57% okay 
>local/autoload......ok 
>local/get...........ok 
>local/http..........NOK 8Can't call method "is_redirect" on an undefined value at local/http.t line 188, <DAEMON> line 1. 
>HTTP Server terminated 
>local/http..........dubious 
>Test returned status 115 (wstat 29440, 0x7300) 
>DIED. FAILED tests 1-18 
>Failed 18/18 tests, 0.00% okay 
>local/protosub......ok 
>Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>local/http.t 115 29440 18 18 100.00% 1-18 
>robot/rules-dbm 13 1 7.69% 8 
>robot/ua.t 7 5 71.43% 1-3, 5, 7 
>Failed 3/22 test scripts, 86.36% okay. 24/286 subtests failed, 91.61% okay. 
>make: *** [test] Error 29
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>If I ignore the errors and install libwww, any attempts to retrieve docs (ie with GET) result in a 550 server error (timeout) but in fact the request never gets sent according to receiving web server logs.
>
>Any ideas about what is going on?
>
>Thanks
>Ethan