[log4perl-devel] Internal error concerning "Root Logger" upon script exit

[Marler, G. <Gor...@le...>]

Running:

Log::Log4perl v0.47
Perl 5.6.1 NFS mounted to all Solaris systems - so identical on all systems
Solaris 8 (various patch levels)

Symptoms:

A couple of scripts that use Log::Log4perl emit the following message after
the script completes, but just before Perl itself terminates:

(in cleanup) Internal error: Root Logger not initialized. at
/usr/LBBE/bootdiskmanager/bin/../../perllib/5.8-5.6.1/Log/Log4perl/Logger.pm
line 520 during global destruction.

Note that I've installed Log::Log4perl in /usr/LBBE/perllib/5.8-5.6.1 for
this particular utility, and used the appropriate "use lib ..." directives
in the script.

The odd thing about this is that the error only seems to occur on Solaris 8
systems that were last patched more than a year ago.  Recently built or
patched Solaris systems don't emit this message at all, using the same
scripts and same Perl installation.

Any ideas as to why this occurs - and where exactly?  It almost seems as
though the Root Logger has been destroyed already by the time global
destruction time comes around.

T. Gordon Marler
Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Storage Engineering
Phone: (201) 499 4764 (x64764 Internally)
gor...@le...



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