360607 - Account creation fails with 'Can't locate object method "_headers_as_string"'

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: Email Notifications, defect)

Description

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

When I try to create a new account on the tip (using createaccount.cgi), I get:

Can't locate object method "_headers_as_string" via package "Email::MIME" at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Email/MIME.pm line 20.

This is almost certainly a regression caused by bug 353711.

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

We can't even release 2.23.4 with this in it.

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Hrm. Okay, I have no idea why this is happening, because Email::MIME uses Email::Simple as a base, and it *does* have _headers_as_string as a method.

Comment 3

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Arrrg, Email::Simple 1.995 doesn't have _headers_as_string, but earlier versions do. I'll have to look into it more.

Comment 4

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Okay, the problem here is that Email::Simple 1.995 requires Email::MIME 1.885. I think this is set correctly in CPAN (maybe...) but it's all messed up on the RPMs. People who are doing a new install shouldn't run into this problem, but I did because I did a lot of forced uninstalls/re-installs of stuff on landfill.

I'm going to leave this open, though, in case more people run into it and we need to do something about it.

Comment 5

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

*** Bug 360202 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Frédéric Buclin]

*** Bug 362943 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Frédéric Buclin]

Max, what are we supposed to do with this bug? Per your comment 4, you got this error because you forced installation of some RPMs. So that's definitely not a Bugzilla bug. -> INVALID!

Comment 8

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

I actually looked into it, and I didn't force the installation of the modules.

The problem is that there are certain versions of Email::MIME and Email::Simple that don't work correctly together. I'm pretty sure that the very latest version of Email::MIME will work with any version of Email::Simple, but there are other versions that won't.

So, the solution here is that we will have to blacklist certain versions of Email::MIME, or we're going to get a lot of support requests about this.

Comment 9

[Paul]

Right!  This bug should be handled the same way others are of the same nature. (e.g. bug 349210)

Comment 10

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

No, we have a blacklist in checksetup.pl coming up in another bug. This can be handled with that.

Comment 11

[Frédéric Buclin]

mkanat, do you still want to blacklist "broken" version of Email::Simple or should this bug be closed?

Comment 12

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

(In reply to comment #11)
> mkanat, do you still want to blacklist "broken" version of Email::Simple or
> should this bug be closed?

  I'm actually not sure if it's possible--I'll have to look into it.

Comment 13

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Yeah, okay, it's not possible. The problem is this:

Email::Simple 1.995 only works with Email::MIME 1.854 or later. We can't explain that to checksetup, and you can't really explain it to CPAN. You can explain it with RPM, but it's far too late to explain it to RPM anyway.