Attempt to free unreferenced scalar?!?!?!

nickheppleston has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Guys,
I've written a small script that pushes files via the Net::FTP module to various servers. The script works fine, however i've just taken two days off work to come back to the script eating _all_ my system resources!!!

Looking in the error log, i get the following error:

Attempt to free unreferenced scalar at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Carp/Heavy
+.pm line 137.
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I've investigated upgrading the Carp::Heavy module via CPAN, but i'm currently running the latest version - is this a known bug? How would i resolve said problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated. If any code is required, please let me know.

Many thanks for you help on this matter.

Nick

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Re: Attempt to free unreferenced scalar?!?!?! by demerphq (Chancellor) on Dec 09, 2002 at 14:23 UTC
I _think_ that your problem is that you are using Perl 5.6.0. I believe this was the type of bug that lead to 5.6.1 being released. Upgrade to 5.6.1 and see what happens. --- demerphq my friends call me, usually because I'm late....	[reply]