sybperl-l Archive

From: Ronald Page <Ron dot Page at asu dot edu>
Subject: RE: CTlib initialization error
Date: Jun 9 1998 8:30PM

Thanks, Michael.  I didn't know about the BEGIN {} requirement... that
worked.

--
Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Peppler [mailto:mpeppler@mbay.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 1:04 PM
To: SybPerl Discussion List
Subject: RE: CTlib initialization error


Ronald Page writes:
 > What's the AFS ACL on the $SYABSE directory?
 > 
 > Since I first posted, we moved perl and sybase to local files to take
 > AFS out of the equation.  The sybase home directory has world rwx
 > permission.  Three other things:
 > 
 > (1) When I run the thing locally (not thru the web server) it
compiles
 > (which you would expect because it did run under Apache as well).
 > 
 > (2) When commenting out the "use" statement, the program compiles and
I
 > can print the environment variable, which is correct (and set before
the
 > use statement)
 > 
 > (3) I just switched to the use statement from CTlib to DBlib and it
 > compiles fine (I did this because other DBlib apps are running
 > fine). 

I'm willing to bet that the issue is with setting $ENV{SYBASE}.

It *must* be set before 'use Sybase::CTlib;'. If you need to set it
*in* the script itself then you need to do so in a BEGIN block:

BEGIN {
	$ENV{SYBASE} = '/path/to/sybase';
}

use Sybase::CTlib;

[rest of script...]

Michael

 > 
 > >  Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 09:59:40 PDT
 > >  From: Ronald Page 
 > >  Subject: CTlib initialization error
 > >  To: SybPerl Discussion List 
 > >  Message-id:
<82E57D16D1D7D111A6B300A0C99B541002B4B7@mainex2.asu.edu>
 > >  X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3)
 > >  Reply-To: SYBPERL-L@listproc.net
 > >  Sender: owner-SYBPERL-L@listproc.net
 > >  
 > >  I'm using Perl 5.004_004, Sybperl 2.08 under Solaris 5.5 and
Netscape
 > >  Server.
 > >  
 > >  I ported an application that works fine from a similiar box under
 > Apache
 > >  server.  The biggest difference is that the new location uses AFS
 > >  instead of local file space.
 > >  
 > >  The error I'm getting is from the the use Sybase::CTlib statement.
 > >  Below is the message (which is ultimately generated from
"CTlib.c").
 > >  Obviously we've verified that the SYBASE environment variable is
set
 > >  correctly.  TIA.
 > >  
 > >  --
 > >  Ronald Page
 > >  Information Technology
 > >  Arizona State University
 > >  
 > >  Error:
 > >  The context allocation routine failed when it
 > >  tried to load localization files!! One or
 > >  more following problems may caused the
 > >  failure Cannot access the sybase home
 > >  directory, please check environment
 > >  variable SYBASE or ~sybase
 > >  Sybase::CTlib initialize: cs_ctx_alloc()
 > >  failed at
 > >  /usr/local/lib/perl5/sun4-solaris/5.00404/DynaLoader.pm
 > >  line 185. BEGIN failed--compilation
 > >  aborted at
 > >  /usr/local/www/develop/epo/cgi-bin/login.cgi
 > >  line 18. 
 > >  
 > >  
 > 
 > 

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