[Catalyst] error starting apache

[Jules Bean]

Matt S Trout wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:15:01PM -0800, charlie Bowman wrote:
>> All other applications were running fine under
>> mod_perl2.  I was able to fix the problem by manually
>> deleting all old (5.33) versions of catalyst from
>> /usr/.....perl5.8.6.... and then redownloading the
>> newest version of the Bundle::Catalyst modules.  I
>> then downlaoded  Catalyst::Engine::Apache2::MP20. 
>> This fixed all errors.   Thanks for helping.
> 
> I'm betting it's the same thing that screwed me over under Dead Rat a few
> times - vendor_perl being ahead of site_perl in @INC or similar.
> 
> If you set your CPAN options to include UNINST=1 it'll automatically nuke
> all potentially conflicting files before installing a newer version of
> something. Very handy.
> 


Although not entirely without its caveats, since you will then have a 
slightly confused package database, which will (a) either think it owns 
files which don't exist or (b) think it owns the new files you just 
installed.

You can't win, really...

Jules