in reply to Is this a severe error?

Error and warning messages are listed in perldiag. Each has a more verbose description: such as that shown by ++choroba in the first response you received.

As a debugging aid, you can use the diagnostics pragma. [Note: this also documents "The splain Program".] Use something like this near the top of your script:

use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics;

This pragma is a developer tool. Its output, which can be quite lengthy, is generally not suitable for end-users (too long, too technical, etc.) and it can swamp log files (messages you really want to see can become lost amongst all this verbiage).

My general advice is:

-- Ken