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[Justin Ellis <address@concealed>]

Why so many uninitialized variables?  That doesn't make a lot of sense having so many, and filling up the apache logs with errors...there is something we are missing surely?

I also noticed this in my sympa logs:
Dec  7 11:35:40 lists bulk[9646]: Bulk::get_remaining_packets_count() Unable to execute SQL statement (while trying to count remaining packets in bulkmailer_table) "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM bulkmailer_table" : MySQL server has gone away 

The SQL query works fine on the database, and sympa is connected to the db.  I'm not getting any errors about connecting to the DB in the logs, everything appears fine except for this particular statement.

Thanks!
Justin

2009/12/4 Marcin Wołoszyn <address@concealed>

I've recently installed Sympa 6.0 on a new server, and am having some issues with it.

I believe I have all of the necessary Perl modules installed, but I'm getting errors in my apache2/error.log:

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /home/sympa/bin/wwslib.pm <http://wwslib.pm> line 213.

Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /home/sympa/bin/Log.pm line 102, <CONF> line 750.
Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /home/sympa/bin/Conf.pm line 1160, <CONF> line 750.
Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /home/sympa/bin/Conf.pm line 1161, <CONF> line 750.

Those are just warnings that the wwsympa's code tried to get a value from a variable which was not previously defined. I'm getting those warnings too. A lot of it. Placing:
no warnings 'recursion';
at wwsympa.fcgi might help, but I didn't actually try that yet.

Upon reading some messages in the archives, it seems as though the culprit could be a missing etc directory in my sympa configuration file.  It points to a proper directory, but there are only 2 files in this directory : cookies.history and data_structure.version.

I looked at an existing Sympa 5.3.x installation, and there seems to be quite a few more files in /home/sympa/etc .  Is this a change from 5.3.X -> 6.0, or am I missing something?

Try to check sympa-6.0 distibuted tar.gz for directory src/etc/
Those files seems not to copy anywhere during installation.
most of them should be placed by default in some place like /usr/share/doc/sympa/examples/ or /usr/share/sympa/examples/
but even with --with-confdir or --with-docdir, those are ignored.
Anyway, You can copy them manually to Your sympa etc directory and customize them.