Forum OpenACS Development: invalid command name "acs_mail_lite::load_mails"

It's weird how the line
eval [concat [list $proc] $args]

gets an error when it tries to execute acs_mail_lite::load_mails -queue_dir ...

I wonder if i need to turn on anything elsewhere in order to make this proc executable under the system. PS: the system was restarted.

[17/Feb/2009:09:47:42][20674.3012541360][-sched:15-] Debug: Running scheduled proc acs_mail_lite::load_mails...
[17/Feb/2009:09:47:42][20674.3012541360][-sched:15-] Notice: AQUI: acs_mail_lite::load_mails $-queue_dir /web/mail-bugtracker/projop/Maildir/
[17/Feb/2009:09:47:42][20674.3012541360][-sched:15-] Error: invalid command name "acs_mail_lite::load_mails"
invalid command name "acs_mail_lite::load_mails"
while executing
"acs_mail_lite::load_mails -queue_dir /web/mail-bugtracker/projop/Maildir/"
("eval" body line 1)
invoked from within
"eval [concat [list $proc] $args]"
(procedure "ad_run_scheduled_proc" line 43)
invoked from within
"ad_run_scheduled_proc {t f 20 acs_mail_lite::load_mails {-queue_dir /web/mail-bugtracker/projop/Maildir/} 1234892202 0 f}"

Even because there are another procs running fine the same ad_run_sheculed proc

[17/Feb/2009:09:47:42][20674.3012541360][-sched:27-] Debug: Running scheduled proc search_indexer...
[17/Feb/2009:09:47:42][20674.3012541360][-sched:27-] Debug: Done running scheduled proc search_indexer.
[17/Feb/2009:09:47:42][20674.3012541360][-sched:24-] Debug: Running scheduled proc notification::sweep::sweep_notifications...
[17/Feb/2009:09:47:42][20674.3012541360][-sched:24-] Notice: AQUI: notification::sweep::sweep_notifications $-interval_id 21489 -batched_p 0
[17/Feb/2009:09:47:42][20674.3012541360][-sched:24-] Notice: Querying '

Frank wrote:

We get the same messages, they are no problem.

Well, whatever "no problem" means. Without load_mails, one is not able to process incoming mails. If you don't use it, it is no problem. We don't use incoming-mail processing, but we don't see the message neither.

However, if there is a problem in oacs-5-4, it should be fixed. The error message (undefined proc, which is defined in incoming-mail-procs) looks to me like a symptom of something (cause) which went wrong earlier during loading.

Does the package loading at server startup work for you without errors? The incoming-mail-procs issue the following package require commands.

package require mime 1.4
package require smtp 1.4
package require base64 2.3.1

Can it be that some of those are missing in your installation?

Rule #1: There is no magic. When someone sources a file containing a proc and this proc does not exist later, then either someone deleted it or loading the file went wrong. This has not much to do with intuition or experience.

Concerning the error message. My distance diagnosis guess is that you have installed tcllib at a place, which is not included in the load-path of tcl (within aolserver) and that you have a version of openacs installed which is older than 1.5 years.

Why do i think so?
There was a file acs-tcl/tcl/mime-procs.tcl in OpenACS, which was removed 1.5 years ago. This file started with the lines:

if {[catch {package require mime}]} {
 	package require Tcl 8.3
 	package provide mime 1.3.3
...

How do i find out, what the package-path is?
Go to developer shell (ds/shell) and type there
set ::auto_path

Hope this helps.
-gustaf neumann