I'd guess the time in your VM is going crazy? (I.e. not getting updated).. Cookies (etc) are based on real time stamps - so if your VM gets very confused about the time, logins will stop working…
Can you try just running 'date' inside and outside your VM - if these aren't close, that is almost certainly your issue.. Cheers t0m On 14 Feb 2013, at 09:58, Ben Vinnerd <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/
