[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#560015: request-tracker3.6: Upgrade to 3.6.1-4+etch1 results in request tracker unable to login

[Paul Gear]

Package: request-tracker3.6
Version: 3.6.1-4+etch1
Severity: normal


Upgrading my system to 3.6.1-4+etch1 (as announced in DSA-1944-1) causes
Request Tracker to report 'not logged in' every time a link is clicked
or a form is submitted.  This occurs no matter which user i login as.  I
found some additional instructions about this patch at
http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2009-November/000176.html
which suggests that the mason object cache needs to be cleared.  I did
this in /var/cache/request-tracker3.6/mason_data/obj on my system, but
it had no effect.  Downgrading to 3.6.1-4 again resolves the problem.
My database is postgresql and my MTA is postfix, but these do not seem
to affect the problem in any way.

-- Package-specific info:
Changed files:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-bpo.2-vserver-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages request-tracker3.6 depends on:
ii  libapache-session-perl     1.81-1        Perl modules for keeping persisten
ii  libcache-cache-perl        1.05-2        Managed caches of persistent infor
ii  libcache-simple-timedexpir 0.26-1        Perl module to cache and expire ke
ii  libcalendar-simple-perl    1.17-2        Perl extension to create simple ca
ii  libclass-returnvalue-perl  0.53-1        A return-value object that lets yo
ii  libdbd-mysql-perl          3.0008-1      A Perl5 database interface to the 
ii  libdbd-pg-perl             1.49-2+etch1  a PostgreSQL interface for Perl 5 
ii  libdbi-perl                1.53-1etch1   Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu
ii  libdbix-searchbuilder-perl 1.45-2        Encapsulate SQL queries and rows i
ii  libexception-class-perl    1.21-1        a module that allows you to declar
ii  libfcgi-perl               0.67-2        FastCGI Perl module
ii  libfreezethaw-perl         0.43-3        converting Perl structures to stri
ii  libgd-graph-perl           1.43.08-2.1   Graph Plotting Module for Perl 5
ii  libgd-text-perl            0.86-3.1      Text utilities for use with GD
ii  libhtml-mason-perl         1:1.35-3      HTML::Mason Perl module
ii  libhtml-parser-perl        3.55-1+etch1  A collection of modules that parse
ii  libhtml-scrubber-perl      0.08-3        Perl extension for scrubbing/sanit
ii  liblocale-maketext-fuzzy-p 0.02-2        Maketext from already interpolated
ii  liblocale-maketext-lexicon 0.62-1        Lexicon-handling backends for "Loc
ii  liblog-dispatch-perl       2.11-1        Dispatches messages to multiple Lo
ii  libmailtools-perl          1.74-1        Manipulate email in perl programs
ii  libmime-perl               5.420-0.1     Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m
ii  libmldbm-perl              2.01-1        Store multidimensional hash struct
ii  libmodule-versions-report- 1.02-3        Report versions of all modules in 
ii  libparams-validate-perl    0.77-1        validate parameters to Perl method
ii  libregexp-common-perl      2.120-4       Provide commonly requested regular
ii  libterm-readkey-perl       2.30-3        A perl module for simple terminal 
ii  libtest-inline-perl        2.103-1       Perl extension for embed tests and
ii  libtext-autoformat-perl    1.13-1        Perl module for automatic text wra
ii  libtext-quoted-perl        1.8-3         Extract the structure of a quoted 
ii  libtext-template-perl      1.44-1.1      Text::Template perl module
ii  libtext-wikiformat-perl    0.78-0.1      translates Wiki formatted text int
ii  libtext-wrapper-perl       1.000-2       Simple word wrapping routine
ii  libtime-modules-perl       2003.1126-2   Various Perl modules for time/date
ii  libtree-simple-perl        1.17-1        A simple tree object
ii  libuniversal-require-perl  0.10-1        Load modules from a variable
ii  libxml-rss-perl            1.05-1        Perl module for managing RSS (RDF 
ii  libxml-simple-perl         2.14-5        Perl module for reading and writin
ii  perl                       5.8.8-7etch6  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  postfix [mail-transport-ag 2.3.8-2+etch1 A high-performance mail transport 
ii  rt3.6-apache2              3.6.1-4+etch1 Apache 2 specific files for reques
ii  rt3.6-clients              3.6.1-4+etch1 Mail gateway and command-line inte
ii  sysklogd [system-log-daemo 1.4.1-18      System Logging Daemon

Versions of packages request-tracker3.6 recommends:
ii  mysql-server              5.0.32-7etch11 mysql database server (meta packag
ii  mysql-server-5.0 [mysql-s 5.0.32-7etch11 mysql database server binaries
ii  postgresql                7.5.22         object-relational SQL database man

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