Sunspots. Or Deep Sevens. Slightly longer shot: Black Lectroids from Planet 10 (check with Dr. Lizardo first, though, on that one). Try jiggling the handle first.

(You've given such a minimal context with nearly zero details no one is going to be able to guess (unless they're reaaaaaly lucky) what the real problem is. Perhaps you should try calling DBI->trace( 2 ) and enable more diagnostics as noted in TFM?)