#22 Installation problem with 2.717
I am trying to install 2.717 on a solaris server and am
not having much luck.
% uname -a
SunOS yuzu 5.8 Generic_108528-09 sun4u sparc
SUNW,Ultra-80
Everything looked good until I tried the "Set your
password and turn on installer security" step and
everything appeared to hang. The problem was that my
web server was processing the request and generating
oodles of messages to the fom-meta/errors files. All of
the messages are the same as shown below:
2002-12-11-17-19-57 2.717 note faq 25040 <(noID)> Perl
warning: Use of uninitialized value in string eq
at /web/randd/tools/FAQ-OMatic-
2.717/install/lib/site_perl/FAQ/OMatic/Item.pm line 238,
<FILE> line 16564.
2002-12-11-17-19-57 2.717 note faq 25040 <(noID)> Perl
warning: Use of uninitialized value in string eq
at /web/randd/tools/FAQ-OMatic-
2.717/install/lib/site_perl/FAQ/OMatic/Item.pm line 238,
<FILE> line 16564.
.
.
. ad infinitum (or close to it)
It looks like something is wrong in my installation but I
have no idea which string to initialize...
I have successfully installed and am currently using
2.712.
Logged In: YES
user_id=715380
I think the $itemDir/item/<FILE> line no. 16564 contains
only keyword "Part:" without part number. If it's true, line
no. 16563 contains something "EndPart: N". Fix is easy:
change line 16564 from "Part:" to "Part: n+1", and search
next "EndPart:", and check part number is OK.