FreezeThaw

[Turtle]

Hi.  I am trying to install freeside 1.2.3 on my SuSE Linux 6.3 system with Kernel
2.2.13.  Everything seems to be going well.  I really think you should update
the documentation though relating to the configuration files, whoever is reading
this and is in charge of that.  After reading an archived article from this
message board I got my configuration files pretty straightened out except for
/usr/local/etc/freeside/dbdef.DBI:mysql:freeside which wasn't mentioned even
once in the documentation nor on this board, so I just copied the conf.DBI:mysql:freeside
into the dbdef.DBI:mysql:freeside folder, having absolutely no idea what it
is.  It seemed to work.  Somehow the suexec function in SuSE 6.3's distribution
of linux seems to be broken, because I've tried it on three suse 6.3 boxes and
suexec never worked on any of them.  So, I have had to change the default user/group
of the whole web server to user freeside group freeside.  In this case it's
fine cause this is a box set up specifically for freeside.

I also have the newest version of DBI and whatever as of yesterday, since that's
when I downloaded all of it, including every perl module listed in the freeside
docs.

So, when I go to any of the CGI scripts in freeside I am presented with this
error message:

Software error:

Do not know how to thaw data with code `' at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/FreezeThaw.pm
line 465
FreezeThaw::thawScalar(0) called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/FreezeThaw.pm
line 604
FreezeThaw::thaw('') called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/FS/dbdef.pm line
73
FS::dbdef::load('FS::dbdef', '/usr/local/etc/freeside/dbdef.DBI:mysql:freeside')
called at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/FS/Record.pm line 756 FS::Record::reload_dbdef
called at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/FS/Record.pm line 19 FS::Record::__ANON__ called
at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/FS/UID.pm line 84 FS::UID::adminsuidsetup('turtle')
called at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/FS/UID.pm line 105 FS::UID::cgisuidsetup('CGI=HASH(0x80d22dc)')
called at
/usr/local/fs-1.2.3/htdocs/edit/cust_main.cgi line 138 


What is this all about?  I've tried re-installing freezethaw, and I've tried
the older version of freezethaw (0.3) and nothing changes.  I don't understand
what is going on.  Any Ideas?


Brian McKelvey
System Administrator
Netzon Internet
(909) 925-3860
turtle at netzon.net
www.netzon.net