Issues after upgrade Debian from sarge to etch

[Stefan Hoth <ma...@stefanhoth.de>]

Hello list!

I'm new here so please be nice to me :)

Since I upgraded my box to debian etch I have the same errors day by day.

I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.2.0  running on Perl version 5.8.8
(standard etch-package) with amavisd-new-2.4.2 (20060627) (also etch-pack).

There is a cronjob bundled with amavis which invokes 'spamassassin
--lint' once in a while.

Command: test -e /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob &&
/usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob sa-sync

The cronjob fails with this message(s):

+++ snip ++++

plugin: failed to parse plugin (from @INC): Bareword
"Mail::SpamAssassin::Constants::CHARSETS_LIKELY_TO_FP_AS_CAPS" not
allowed while "strict subs" in use at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/HeaderEval.pm line 965.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 70) line 1.

plugin: failed to create instance of plugin
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::HeaderEval: Can't locate object method "new"
via package "Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::HeaderEval" at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/HeaderEval.pm line 39.

plugin: failed to parse plugin (from @INC):
"CHARSETS_LIKELY_TO_FP_AS_CAPS" is not exported by the
Mail::SpamAssassin::Constants module
Can't continue after import errors at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/MIMEEval.pm line 22
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/MIMEEval.pm line 22.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 72) line 1.

plugin: failed to create instance of plugin
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::MIMEEval: Can't locate object method "new"
via package "Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::MIMEEval" at (eval 73) line 1.


+++ /snip ++++

Since I'm barely familiar to perl I couldn't get my self rid of these
errors. Although spamassassin and amavis work fine together.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks in advance,

Stefan

Re: Issues after upgrade Debian from sarge to etch [SOLVED]

[Stefan Hoth <ma...@stefanhoth.de>]

Hello!

> Hmm...  I know you said standard Etch packages but those versions do
> not match the versions in Etch.  They match the versions in Testing.
> Therefore I conclude that you are actually running Debian testing.
> 

Didn't think so but obviously I must mess things up while experimenting
with amavisd-new (and spamassassin plugins).

> For various reasons I recommend Debian Stable (currently Etch) or
> Debian Unstable (always named Sid).  I can't recommend Testing for
> production use.
> 

I know and I agree - my sources.list is only linked to etch - but maybe
there was a short time when I had "testing" in it.

> Please check and see if you have SA installed multiple different ways,
> by package and by direct installation (e.g. CPAN).  If you have
> multiple versions of SpamAssassin installed I suggest removing all of
> the ones that you are not using.

Bob, you made my day - thank you! After checking my installation with
your hints I could cleanup some cpan-installed modules and replaced the
testing-version with the version from the etch repository.

Finally I got rid of this error messages.

Thank you all for your help!

Stefan

Re: Issues after upgrade Debian from sarge to etch

[Bob Proulx <bo...@proulx.com>]

Stefan Hoth wrote:
> Since I upgraded my box to debian etch I have the same errors day by day.
>
> I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.2.0  running on Perl version 5.8.8
> (standard etch-package) with amavisd-new-2.4.2 (20060627) (also etch-pack).

Hmm...  I know you said standard Etch packages but those versions do
not match the versions in Etch.  They match the versions in Testing.
Therefore I conclude that you are actually running Debian testing.

For various reasons I recommend Debian Stable (currently Etch) or
Debian Unstable (always named Sid).  I can't recommend Testing for
production use.

> Command: test -e /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob && /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob sa-sync
> ...
> plugin: failed to parse plugin (from @INC): Bareword
> "Mail::SpamAssassin::Constants::CHARSETS_LIKELY_TO_FP_AS_CAPS" not
> allowed while "strict subs" in use at
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/HeaderEval.pm line 965.
> Compilation failed in require at (eval 70) line 1.

Because this file is installed in /usr/local I know that it is not the
Debian packaged version but is instead a direct local installation.
That is fine.  But this is an indication of a typical problem.  Often
when multiple versions of perl modules are installed simultaneously
this will create version mismatch problems.  It is certainly possible
to install multiple versions but there have also been a lot of reports
of problems in those cases too.

> Since I'm barely familiar to perl I couldn't get my self rid of these
> errors. Although spamassassin and amavis work fine together.

Please check and see if you have SA installed multiple different ways,
by package and by direct installation (e.g. CPAN).  If you have
multiple versions of SpamAssassin installed I suggest removing all of
the ones that you are not using.

Bob