Hi there. Perl is completely new for me, anyways I got stuck with this error trying to do a simple script than must keep a connection established with a remote server. When Ping is called for the second time and Mysql server is off segmentation fault occurs.

this is the skeleton working with a local mysql server (same error): 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use DBI;
use warnings;
use strict;
use Term::ReadKey;

my $dsnL = "dbi:mysql:database=test;host=127.0.0.1;port=3306";
my $dbhLocal = DBI->connect($dsnL, 'root',''); 
$dbhLocal->{mysql_auto_reconnect} = 1;


my $exit;
ReadMode 4;

for ( ; ; ) {
    if ($dbhLocal->ping()) {
      print "OK\n";
    }
    else {
      print "FAILED\n";
    }
    defined( $exit = ReadKey(-1) ) && $exit ne 'Q' ? last : sleep 5;
}

ReadMode 0;
exit 0;

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Output: root@debian1:/home/user# perl test.pl
OK
OK
OK
OK
Segmentation fault

Sometimes fails with *** Error in `perl': double free or corruption (!prev): 0x00000000020a89d0 ***

Someone have a idea what is happening or a way to tackle this problem?

perl -v This is perl 5, version 20, subversion 2 (v5.20.2) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi

In reply to DBD::mysql Ping segmentation fault by RndNoob

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