[ic] catalog config errors

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Michel Matte)]

Hi:

> Quoting: Darren Bayliss
>          I am still getting catalogue config errors on startup. I have
> gone
> throught the install/compilation again, but i am still getting the
> follwing
> output to the interchange error log:
>
> - - - [04/February/2002:12:14:32 +0000] - - foundation: config error.
> Skipping.
> - - - [04/February/2002:12:14:32 +0000] - - START server (29615)
> (INET and
> UNIX)
> - - - [04/February/2002:12:14:33 +0000] - - Accepting connections
> from
> localhost|127\.0\.0\.1
> - - - [04/February/2002:12:14:33 +0000] - - START server (29666)
> (INET and
> UNIX)
> - - - [04/February/2002:13:16:07 +0000] - - STOP server (29666) on
> signal
> TERM
> - - - [04/February/2002:13:16:09 +0000] - - Low traffic settings.
> - - - [04/February/2002:13:16:11 +0000] - - ...UI is loaded...
> - - - [04/February/2002:13:16:11 +0000] - - Interchange V4.8.3
> - - - [04/February/2002:13:16:11 +0000] - - Config 'foundation' at
> server
> startup
> - - - [04/February/2002:13:16:11 +0000] - - 
> >
> > Need Perl module Digest::MD5 for better cache keys.
> >
> > In line 6 of the configuration file 'catalog.cfg':
> > Require module Digest::MD5    "Need %s %s for better cache keys."
> >
>

You may have CPAN install problems. Check the following thread:

http://interchange.redhat.com/archive/interchange-users/2001/msg11911.html

I owe the answers to ChristopherF. Miller, John Beima and Shane Keene.

I had to upgrade to RH 7.1 to .2 to make it compatible with the new CPAN modules and even then I installed
Bundle::Interchange in many steps and several times: make , make test and make install.  Perhaps your version of
Linux is not compatible with the new CPAN modules. Check your current version of Perl and update if necessary:
install Bundle::CPAN,  make sure your firewall doesn't prevent the process specially in the test phase.

A good book is Professional Perl Programming by Peter Wainwright.  You can also try to run two versions of Perl as
suggested in today's archive.

> N.B: the following aymbol : is entered as an upside down question
> mark (the
> name of which escapes me at the moment) in the error log
>

That symbol has no consequence: it's a quote symbol if I remember.

> This results in the 'error:undefined catalog' output from the
> browser. I
> have tried to configure using the web server ip address instead of
> localhost, but this changes nothing
>
The error is due to the install problems above.