[DAS] Problems installing Lightweight DAS server

[Lincoln Stein]

Hi Mark,

If you can, su to the default web user and try debugging the test script from 
there.  My guess is that the problem is one of the following environment 
variables:

	PATH
	LD_LIBRARY_PATH
	PERLLIB
	PERL5LIB

Lincoln

On Friday 18 October 2002 07:33 pm, Gosink, Mark (SEA) wrote:
> Hello all,
> 	I am having problem getting the server to function which I beleive
> can be tied the environmental variables used by the default web account. I
> hope someone can suggest a work-around. I'm trying to set up the system on
> a sun-solaris box.
> 	During the testing of the installation of the software. I kept
> getting an 'Could not open database' error. I changed the line (line #80 in
> my version) in the das app subroutine 'openDB' from
>
> my $db = eval { Bio::DB::GFF->new(@args) };
>           to
> my $db = Bio::DB::GFF->new(@args);
>
> so that the apache error logs would be more helpful, and found the
> following message:
>
> install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't load
> '/comp/software/release/lib/perl/sun4-solaris/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so' for
> module DBD::mysql: ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/perl: fatal: libz.so: open
> failed: No such file or directory at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/sun4-solaris/DynaLoader.pm line 206.
>  at (eval 13) line 3
> Compilation failed in require at (eval 13) line 3.
> Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected
>  at
> /comp/software/release/lib/perl/Bio/DB/GFF/Adaptor/dbi/caching_handle.pm
> line 140
> [Fri Oct 18 16:15:38 2002] [error] [client 10.128.220.25] Premature end of
> script headers: /usr/local/www/mgosink/cgi-bin/das
>
> I wrote this short script to test the connection:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl -I/comp/software/release/lib/perl
> use Bio::DB::GFF 1.02;
> my @args = (-adaptor => "dbi::mysql");
> push @args,(-dsn     => "dbi:mysql:database=dicty;host=localhost");
> push @args,(-user    => "<myusername>");
> push @args,(-pass    => "<mypassword>");
> my $db = Bio::DB::GFF->new(@args);
> print "DB - $db\n";
>
> When I connect as myself it works fine; however when I connect as the
> default web-user I get the above error message.
>
> Has anyone seen this error before and/or have any suggestions on how to fix
> it?
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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