That would work if the machine is always connected to a network.

I believe installing VMware tools fixes the clock sync problem though.

Ben


On 14 February 2013 14:27, Nicolas Vs <[email protected]> wrote:

> Install an ntp server on your host/vm and start it with its default
> configuration.
>
> Regards,
> Nicolas
> ------------------------------
> De : Ben Vinnerd
> Envoyé : 14/02/2013 11:00
> À : The elegant MVC web framework
> Objet : Re: [Catalyst] Tutorial (in VMware) keeps losing ability
> toauthenticate
>
>
> I seem to recall have authentication problems with a Catalyst app a while
> ago, but only in the IE browser.
>
> IIRC the problem was something to do with the VM's clock losing sync and
> an IE cookies clash.
>
> Check the clock on your VM is accurate - worth a go :)
>
> Ben
>
>
> On 30 January 2013 21:10, Dan Lowe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have been doing the Catalyst tutorial, at
>>
>> https://metacpan.org/module/Catalyst::Manual::Tutorial
>>
>> I am using the VMware virtual machine, as recommended. This is running in
>> VMware Fusion 5 Pro on a Mac. Overall it works perfectly fine, except that
>> periodically, I lose the ability to authenticate to the demo CRUD app
>> (MyApp). Based on observation, it seems that the only common factor is that
>> it works fine before my laptop is put to sleep for the night, and it is
>> broken in the morning. It doesn't seem to matter where in the tutorial I
>> am. VMware, and often the Catalyst app server, are running when the laptop
>> goes to sleep.
>>
>> (Arguably I should not do that, though the VM itself comes back just
>> fine, and the app server still responds, it's just that I am no longer able
>> to authenticate.)
>>
>> Things I have tried already:
>>
>> 1. Move the ~/MyApp/ directory aside, remove /tmp/myapp (session data
>> cache), and run the server from e.g. ~/Final/Chapter05/MyApp. This results
>> in the same behavior (app server runs, and response to http requests, but
>> when authenticating, all I ever get is the "Empty username or password"
>> error).
>>
>> 2. Reboot the VM
>>
>> 3. Reboot the Mac
>>
>> 4. Get to a working point, stop the app server, tar up ~/MyApp, and then
>> next time it breaks,
>>
>>         (stop app server)
>>         cd ~
>>         rm -rf ~/MyApp /tmp/myapp
>>         (untar the copy of ~/MyApp)
>>         cd ~/MyApp ; script/myapp_server -r
>>
>> But that doesn't work, it exhibits the same behavior.
>>
>> 5. Delete ~/MyApp and /tmp/myapp and do the tutorial over again, pasting
>> in all of the code from the web page. (This is the only approach that has
>> worked so far, unfortunately.)
>>
>> I am just learning Catalyst (obviously), so I don't have any good
>> theories here except that sleeping the VMware VM is corrupting something in
>> its memory or filesystem, causing the trouble. Memory would not seem to be
>> a legitimate suspect though, because rebooting the VM does not fix the
>> problem. Whatever is wrong is persisting across reboots, i.e. it's probably
>> on the filesystem.
>>
>> Does the tutorial cache data other than in /tmp/myapp? I have tried to
>> find other caches, but since I am running unprivileged, it seems as if it
>> would not be able to write outside of my home directory or /tmp, and I've
>> already looked in both of those. I don't see anything under ~/MyApp that
>> appears to be dynamic data, only in /tmp/myapp.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice,
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> List: [email protected]
>> Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst
>> Searchable archive:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
>> Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> List: [email protected]
> Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst
> Searchable archive:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
> Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
>
>
_______________________________________________
List: [email protected]
Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst
Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/

Reply via email to