A Linux server on which a Blosxom blog was running lost power due to a power outage. When power was restored and I rebooted the server, I found that the website hosting the blog was functioning ok, but attempting to access the blog itself returned only a blank webpage. Checking the error log for the site, I saw error messages such as the following:
[Mon Jul 28 08:57:25 2008] [error] [client 216.246.77.172] calendar debug 1: filter() called
[Mon Jul 28 08:57:25 2008] [error] [client 216.246.77.172] File is not a perl storable at blib/lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into blib/lib/auto/Storable/_retrieve.al) line 380, <DATA> line 32, at /home/jsmith/www/blog/plugins/calendar line 322
[Mon Jul 28 08:57:25 2008] [error] [client 216.246.77.172] Premature end of script headers: blosxom
[Mon Jul 28 08:58:22 2008] [error] [client 66.249.71.193] calendar debug 1: start() called, enabled
[Mon Jul 28 08:58:23 2008] [error] [client 66.249.71.193] calendar debug 1: filter() called
[Mon Jul 28 08:58:23 2008] [error] [client 66.249.71.193] File is not a perl storable at blib/lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into blib/lib/auto/Storable/_retrieve.al) line 380, <DATA> line 32, at /home/jsmith/www/blog/plugins/calendar line 322The blog uses a Blosxom Calendar plugin.
I remembered having problems when I moved the blog from a 32-bit Linux system
to a 64-bit system (see
Blosxom
Calendar Plugin on 64-bit System). I found the problem was similar and
I was able to resolve it by deleting the .calendar.cache file
from the Blosxom plugins state directory, plugins/state.
Once the blog was accessible again, I checked the state directory with
ls -al again and saw the .calendar.cache file
had been recreated.
