in reply to perl broke

When you did the install of the Ximian modules did you "upgrade" Perl as well? I know from personal experience that the upgrades sometimes hose an already installed instance of Perl.

Offhand I'd say one of the dynamic libraries that Perl depends on (/usr/lib/lib*thread* for instance) has been mucked with by Ximian's Red Carpet installer.

You might consider d/l'ing the Perl source and re-installing Perl.


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