a 'AddPublisher' state was sent from poe at 13 to session 2, but session 2 has neither that state nor a _default state to handle it POE::Component::Server::TCP->new( Alias => 'TCPServer', ... InlineStates => { AddPublisher => sub {} } ; $_[KERNEL]->post( TCPServer => AddPublisher => $_[SESSION], 1 ); },