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how to debug?

Simplest way I know is: Devel::Trace. It's a single, pure perl file, so installation is as simple and copy&paste if need be; and the just run your script using:

perl -d:Trace yourScript.pl

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It will trace out all the lines of your script and all the modules it uses, until it terminates; the last line of the trace will tell you where it stopped, and that's 90% of the battle in working out why?

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