please provide an SSCCE to avoid such waste this time around

I tried that with previous problems. When I tried to reduce to a small block of code the problems disappeared so it was not an example. And IIRC I just struggled through until stumbling on solution.

The error message is pretty clear but I don't understand how to solve it.

Fri Sep 29 05:59:36 2017 manage_users.cgi: (in cleanup) Can't connect to data source '' because I can't work out what driver to use (it doesn't seem to contain a 'dbi:driver:' prefix and the DBI_DRIVER env var is not set) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/CGI/Session/Driver/DBI.pm line 26

I guess that message is coming from DBI.pm.. 

    # extract dbi:driver prefix from $dsn into $1
    $dsn =~ s/^dbi:(\w*?)(?:\((.*?)\))?://i
            or '' =~ /()/; # ensure $1 etc are empty if match fails
    my $driver_attrib_spec = $2 || '';

    # Set $driver. Old style driver, if specified, overrides new dsn s
+tyle.
    $driver = $old_driver || $1 || $ENV{DBI_DRIVER}
    or Carp::croak("Can't connect to data source '$dsn' "
            ."because I can't work out what driver to use "
            ."(it doesn't seem to contain a 'dbi:driver:' prefix "
            ."and the DBI_DRIVER env var is not set)");

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