Re: [mh] errors when loading MH

[Gary S. <mhn...@dg...>]

I should have dug a little deeper before hitting the "Send" key.

With a few hours of Googling I was able to find a repository that had 
DB_File for ActiveState Perl 5.8. (Couldn't find any for later Perl 
versions though.)

It installed with no difficulties, and MH no longer crashes when the 
phone rings.

Gary Sanders



On 3/9/2014 4:04 PM, Gary Sanders wrote:
> I know this thread is about two years old, but I wonder if anything has
> changed with respect to DB_File?
>
> My Windows 7 PC died a few days ago, which was running MH 2.105 with
> Active State Perl 5.8.
>
> Luckily, I back up everything daily with Windows Home Server 2011, so I
> retrieved the MH related directories and restored them to a new Win7
> box. The old box is toast.
>
> I had a saved a copy of Active State Perl 5.8, and installed that.
>
> I reinstalled all the required Perl modules I could, but of course
> DB_File is unobtanium.
>
> Everything on MH runs well, except for the win32 registry module related
> stuff (which doesn't seem to hurt anything - the old machine had that
> same problem), and one other problem that kind of ruins my day - every
> time the phone rings in the house, MH crashes!
>
> This is caused by the caller ID being dependent on DB_File.
>
> So, a couple of questions:
>
> 1) Is there still no availability of DB_File for Active State Perl? I
> couldn't find it.
>
> 2) Is compiling it myself still the only option?  I saw the referenced
> method Michael used while updating to Perl 5.12, but frankly, it sounds
> above my skill set. While reading it, I was completely thrown by the
> reference to applying a patch, and the diff file, which is well beyond me.
>
> 3) As I mentioned earlier, I have a complete file-by-file backup of the
> old PC. Is there any way I could retrieve the necessary files from it to
> get DB_File to work on the new machine? I know - long shot.
>
> Any help or advice would be most welcome,
>
> Gary Sanders
>
>
> On 3/5/2012 12:27 AM, Michael Stovenour wrote:
>> Greg,
>>
>> These look like some of the same issues I had running under Perl 5.12:
>> http://misterhouse.wikispaces.com/WindowsPerl5.12
>>
>> For DB_File I’m afraid you will need to compile it yourself.  That’s an
>> awful thing to ask of non-developers, but DB_File has been hijacked by
>> commercial interests and can no longer be distributed by the regular
>> package repositories.  I have instructions above that might work for
>> Perl 5.8.  You can probably ignore this one unless you enable a module
>> that actually tries to use it.  In that case you will get more errors so
>> the issue will be obvious.
>>
>> I see that you are using Perl 5.8.  I recently moved Win32::Registry
>> from the site library folder to version specific folders.  It looks like
>> the versions distributed with MH are too old; it might be as easy as
>> deleting those files from the lib/site_win58 directory and including
>> them from your Perl repository.  In that case Perl will look in your
>> Perl distribution for the files.  I’ll try to help fix these if you can
>> answer a couple of questions for me:
>>
>> 1)How did you install Misterhouse?with
>>
>> 2)What does perl -v  report?
>>
>> 3)What is the output if you open a command prompt and run the following
>> command?
>>
>> perl -e "use Win32::Registry; print $Win32::Registry::VERSION"
>>
>> I would try this myself but I don’t have a way to install a clean Perl
>> 5.8 on Windows since ActiveState doesn’t support it any more.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Michael
>>
>> *From:*Greg Doyle [mailto:as4...@gm...]
>> *Sent:* Saturday, March 03, 2012 8:32 PM
>> *To:* mis...@li...
>> *Subject:* [mh] errors when loading MH
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've had mister house running in the most basic way for a while, just
>> having the chimes and appointment notifications playing on a speaker.
>> Now I want to set up some home automation for real.
>>
>> I have had some errors that have always come up during start up, as seen
>> in the log below.  I've tried to understand what's going wrong and how
>> to repair it but have not had any luck.
>>
>> I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Greg Doyle
>>
>>
>> *
>> Error in loading module=Win32::Registry:
>>     Win32::Registry object version 0.10 does not match
>> $Win32::Registry::VERSION 0.07 at C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 225*.
>> Compilation failed in require at (eval 31) line 2.
>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 31) line 2.
>>
>>    - See install.html for instructions on how to install perl module
>> Win32::Registry
>>
>>
>> *Error in loading module=Win32::Setupsup:
>>     Attempt to reload Win32/Registry.pm aborted.*
>> Compilation failed in require at
>> C:\misterhouse\mh\bin/../lib/site_win58/Win32/Setupsup.pm line 29.
>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
>> C:\misterhouse\mh\bin/../lib/site_win58/Win32/Setupsup.pm line 29.
>> Compilation failed in require at (eval 32) line 2.
>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 32) line 2.
>>
>> Loading Tk modules Version 804.028
>> Loading other modules
>> Starting setup
>>    - using simple Text distance function
>>
>> *Error in loading module=DB_File:*
>>     Can't locate DB_File.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ./../code/test
>> ./../code/common C:\misterhouse\mh\bin/../lib
>> C:\misterhouse\mh\bin/../lib/site . C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib .
>> C:\misterhouse\mh\bin/../lib/site_win58) at (eval 102) line 2.
>>
>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 102) line 2.
>>
>>    - See install.html for instructions on how to install perl module DB_File



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