Grepped from Google, enjoy:

I believe this message comes from an early beta version of PPM3. Before PPM3 was included in ActivePerl it got delivered as a beta. The beta was an executable, built with PerlApp.

It is most likely not compatible with Perl 5.8, but either way it will be a good idea to get rid of it.

Check your PATH to see if you have any directory in front of the Perl\bin directory that may contain a ppm.exe or ppm3.exe, and make sure you get rid of it. If this is installed into your Perl\bin directory itself, then I would assume that you also installed Perl 5.8 on top of Perl 5.6. This is a bad idea, as extension modules are not compatible between these version.

Unfortunately the ActivePerl 5.8 installer doesn't prevent this situation. I would recommend to completely uninstall ActivePerl in this case, manually remove the remaining directory tree and then reinstall. Otherwise you may run into weird problems later, when Perl 5.6 modules that didn't get reinstalled start failing.

Smitz

In reply to Re: Panic: Can't find bfs section by smitz
in thread Panic: Can't find bfs section by Anonymous Monk

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