Thankgs for all the help guys. Through some digging, I found some new files that were calling "require moduleX.methods", which seem to be the culprit.
Thanks again! Perrin Harkins wrote: > > aj2taylo wrote: >> Correct, moduleX.methods has sub routines defined, but is not itself a >> package. This is all part of a legacy system, and moduleX.pm is used as >> a >> form handler, so moduleX.methods exists purely for architectural reasons >> (separating certain functions from the form handling functions). > > Are you doing a "require moduleX.methods" in some other file too? As > Jeff and Philip explained, this is what can get you in trouble, since it > will only load the first time it is required in a particular perl > interpreter. > >> This architectural approach has worked fine for years, and as stated >> before, >> there were no changes to moduleX.methods or changes to the top of >> moduleX.pm >> (where the require stmt is). > > You may have just started requiring this module in some other file, or > added a modified copy of your moduleX form handler somewhere, or changed > what you load in startup.pl. Then it will be a matter of chance which > one gets loaded first in each process, and the second to get loaded will > fail to require this file correctly. > > A quick and bad fix for this is to change your require statement to this: > > BEGIN { > do 'moduleX.methods.pl'; > } > > That will ignore %INC and load it again anyway. > > A better solution is to put the moduleX.methods subs into a package. > That will save memory because it avoids loading them more than once in > separate namespaces. > > - Perrin > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/mod_perl-problems---require-file-tf2810466.html#a7859199 Sent from the mod_perl - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.