I've been fighting with this for a few hours now, and I'm stuck. I've reread docs, but can't really find anything relevant to this error from Image::Magick::Read: 
  Exception 450: Empty input file (/var/tmp/magic81OnytHVZvna2f.tmp)

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I'm trying to use an uploaded image, resize if needed, and save to a new directory. Earlier, I adapted the code to not depend on CGI's  upload method because i wasn't getting anywhere with it ....

so here's the code in question: 

    my $thumb = Image::Magick->new();

    open( THUMBFILE, $tmpName ) or die "Can't open tmpImg $tmpName:  $
+! \n";;
    my $filesRead = $thumb->Read( file => \*THUMBFILE );
    close THUMBFILE;    

    print STDERR "Read:  $filesRead files \n";
    my ( $height, $width ) = $thumb->Get( 'height', 'width' );

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if the files weren't where i say it is via  $tmpName , the OPEN statement should die. and i've verified on the filesystem, and it's there, alright, and ~400K.

without the GLOB ref, strict complains that barewords aren't allowed.

the location reference in the error isn't the same as the file location, but i presume it should be different because of the OPEN statement ....

i'm willing to entertain just about any possiblity, from a b0rked Image::Magick/ Perl::Magick install to .... but how would i check for a b0rked install?

In reply to Image::Magick woes by geektron

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