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Help newbie

[Guruprasad S <sgu...@no...>]

Hi,
I am running Perl5.6.0 on NT.  Whenever I build with USE_MULTI uncommented =
and USE_ITHREAD commented, I can access the directory.  But when I =
uncomment UCS_ITHREAD as well, my script fails by saying=20

decode error at c:/perl/site/5.6.0/lib/Convert/ASN1/_decode.pm line 136.
84
decode error at c:/perl/site/5.6.0/lib/Convert/ASN1/_decode.pm line 136.
        ...propagated at ldap1.pl line 12.

Can any of you help me out.

My script looks like this:

use Net::LDAP;
$ldap =3D Net::LDAP->new('blr-nb7.blr.novell.com') or die "$@";

$mesg =3D $ldap->bind or die "Failed to bind\n";
if ($mesg->code) {
 print $mesg->error, $mesg->code,"\n";
 die;
 }

$mesg =3D $ldap->search( # perform a search
                        base   =3D> "o=3Dnovell",
  	    filter =3D> "sn=3D*",
		) or die "Failed to search\n";

if ($mesg->code) {
 print $mesg->error, $mesg->code,"\n";
 die;
}


Thanks
Guru

Re: Help newbie

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Guruprasad S <sgu...@no...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running Perl5.6.0 on NT.  Whenever I build with USE_MULTI
> uncommented and USE_ITHREAD commented, I can access the directory.  But
> when I uncomment UCS_ITHREAD as well, my script fails by saying 
> 
> decode error at c:/perl/site/5.6.0/lib/Convert/ASN1/_decode.pm line 136.
> 84
> decode error at c:/perl/site/5.6.0/lib/Convert/ASN1/_decode.pm line 136.
>         ...propagated at ldap1.pl line 12.
> 
> Can any of you help me out.
> 
> My script looks like this:
> 
> use Net::LDAP;
> $ldap = Net::LDAP->new('blr-nb7.blr.novell.com') or die "$@";
> 
> $mesg = $ldap->bind or die "Failed to bind\n";
> if ($mesg->code) {
>  print $mesg->error, $mesg->code,"\n";
>  die;
>  }
> 
> $mesg = $ldap->search( # perform a search
>                         base   => "o=novell",
>  	     filter => "sn=*",
>		 ) or die "Failed to search\n";
> 
> if ($mesg->code) {
>  print $mesg->error, $mesg->code,"\n";
>  die;
> }
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Guru
> 
> 

Net::LDAP is known to trigger problems in perl 5.6, so it is probably best
to avoid that combination for now :-(

Can you set debug => 3 in the call to new and send us the screen output?
This debug setting will dump out all the PDUs sent and received, in hex.
This should make it easier to reproduce the problem.

Cheers,

Chris

Re: Help newbie

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

Convert::ASN is known not to work with threads as it uses a feature of perl
that is known not to work when threads is enabled. However due to recent
discussion on perl5-porters about how broken perls threads are and that they
should be removed (if they could be) I am reluctant to spend the time
to code the algorithm a different way.

So all  can say is, don't use a perl compiled with threads enabled.

Graham.

On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 01:44:55AM -0700, Guruprasad S wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running Perl5.6.0 on NT.  Whenever I build with USE_MULTI uncommented and USE_ITHREAD commented, I can access the directory.  But when I uncomment UCS_ITHREAD as well, my script fails by saying 
> 
> decode error at c:/perl/site/5.6.0/lib/Convert/ASN1/_decode.pm line 136.
> 84
> decode error at c:/perl/site/5.6.0/lib/Convert/ASN1/_decode.pm line 136.
>         ...propagated at ldap1.pl line 12.
> 
> Can any of you help me out.
> 
> My script looks like this:
> 
> use Net::LDAP;
> $ldap = Net::LDAP->new('blr-nb7.blr.novell.com') or die "$@";
> 
> $mesg = $ldap->bind or die "Failed to bind\n";
> if ($mesg->code) {
>  print $mesg->error, $mesg->code,"\n";
>  die;
>  }
> 
> $mesg = $ldap->search( # perform a search
>                         base   => "o=novell",
>   	    filter => "sn=*",
> 		) or die "Failed to search\n";
> 
> if ($mesg->code) {
>  print $mesg->error, $mesg->code,"\n";
>  die;
> }
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Guru
> 
>