Prototype Mismatch in APR::XSLoader::BOOTSTRAP
Well, today I just did not believe my eyes.
I was just bringing up a new webmail host when I noticed Apache throwing an 500 internal server error at me.
Looking at the error log I saw this line:
[Wed Jan 01 00:16:35 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Prototype mismatch: sub APR::XSLoader::BOOTSTRAP: none vs () at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach/APR/XSLoader.pm line 24. BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach/APR/XSLoader.pm line 26. Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach/Apache2/Reload.pm line 161.
At first I though to be going mad because that server had just worked only few hours ago. Why would it fail like that after relocating it?
At second thought I noticed the time stamp which said “Wed Jan 01 00:16:35 2003”.
Well, the server had likely lost it’s CMOS settings during relocation. So after correcting the time through ntpdate the error had disappeared and Apache/mod_perl worked like a charm again. 🙂
September 9th, 2008 at 3:50 am
I just had the same issue, but hadn’t noticed the date till i read this post.
Thanks for blogging about it…
Cheers,
James