Is this a server or client problem? Could it be hardware related? There is nothing in my /var/log/messages or syslog to indicate a hardware problem. The UBB appears to be functioning fine.

[Wed Mar 20 10:58:42 2002] [error] [client 216.XX.XX.XX] File does not exist: /home/ibsgroup/public_html/ubb/Forum1/HTML/007357-2.html
syntax error at /home/ibsgroup/public_html/cgi-local/ubbcgi/Modules/vars.pm line 2, near "xí@xí@rror at "
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/lib.pm line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/ibsgroup/public_html/cgi-local/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi line 45.
[Wed Mar 20 11:10:13 2002] [error] [client 63.XX.XX.XX] Premature end of script headers: /home/ibsgroup/public_html/cgi-local/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi
Unrecognized character 200 at Modules/AutoLoader.pm line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/ibsgroup/public_html/cgi-local/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi line 48.
[Wed Mar 20 11:10:19 2002] [error] [client 63.XX.XX.XX] Premature end of script headers: /home/ibsgroup/public_html/cgi-local/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi
Unrecognized character 01 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/strict.pm line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/ibsgroup/public_html/cgi-local/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi line 47.
[Wed Mar 20 11:10:27 2002] [error] [client 66.XX.XX.XX] Premature end of script headers: /home/ibsgroup/public_html/cgi-local/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi
Semicolon seems to be missing at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/Carp.pm line 4.
Semicolon seems to be missing at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/Carp.pm line 7.
Semicolon seems to be missing at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/Carp.pm line 9.
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/Carp.pm line 15, near "croak "We're outta here!""
(Do you need to predeclare croak?)
syntax error at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/Carp.pm line 3, near "of caller"
"use" not allowed in expression at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/Carp.pm line 14, at end of line
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/Carp.pm line 17.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Modules/UBBCGI/Carp.pm line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/ibsgroup/public_html/cgi-local/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi line 50.
[Wed Mar 20 11:10:30 2002] [error] [client 63.XX.XX.XX] Premature end of script headers: /home/ibsgroup/public_html/cgi-local/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi
syntax error at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/Exporter.pm line 1, near ">"
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/Config.pm line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/lib.pm line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/ibsgroup/public_html/cgi-local/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi line 45.
[Wed Mar 20 11:10:41 2002] [error] [client 207.XX.XX.XX] Premature end of script headers: /home/ibsgroup/public_html/cgi-local/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi
[Wed Mar 20 11:10:52 2002] ultimatebb.cgi: /home/ibsgroup/public_html/cgi-local/ubbcgi/ubb_lib_time.cgi: [Wed Mar 20 11:10:52 2002] ultimatebb.cgi: Unrecognized character 01 at /home/ibsgroup/public_html/cgi-local/ubbcgi/ubb_lib_time.cgi line 1.

Mmmmm... if I didn't know better, I'd say you were running NT with the ISAPI DLL, but clearly you're on Unix.

How frequently do errors such as this occur?

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Charles Capps
Programmer, Infopop Corporation
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Yup, RedHat 6.2

A simple grep in the error log shows 96 occurences of "compilation aborted" since March 1. It seems that is printed twice per error so I'd guess 48 times this month.

Can you do me a favor?

Grab as many of those errors as possible, stick them in a text file, and mail it to charles@infopop.com, including the URL to this topic.. I'd like to look at all of the errors.

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Charles Capps
Programmer, Infopop Corporation
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Done.

Thanks - I'll be trudging through those this afternoon.

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Charles Capps
Programmer, Infopop Corporation
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OKay... something is very wrong here. I can't determine what would cause those errors...

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Charles Capps
Programmer, Infopop Corporation
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Anything I can do to help debug?

Do you believe this is a UBB thing?

I'm not really sure what to do.

All of the errors don't exist - if the modules being referenced had the problems that the log says they're having, perl would flat out NOT operate on your server.

We've only seen one thing like this - the ISAPI DLL of ActiveState Perl throws errors EXACTLY like this......

Are you using FastCGI / SpeedyCGI or any similar tool that "speeds up" CGI processes?

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Charles Capps
Programmer, Infopop Corporation
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No, nothing fancy on the box.

I'm running pretty vanilla Redhat 6.2 with these RPMS:

perl-5.00503-10
mod_perl-1.21-10
MySQL-shared-3.23.40-1
php-4.0.5-2.0.0
db3-3.1.17-4.6x
mod_php-4.0.5-2.0.0
mod_gzip-1.3.19.1a-1

I'm going to check my February and January logs to see when this started happening. My hunch is that it started recently because of the increased load caused by Recent Visitors. Just a hunch.