First of all, you shouldn't use the same module twice. You can get rid of the second one, it seems to export chdir and getcwd by default.

Are your permissions correct for the dir? Specifically, are /x, /x/y and /x/y/z all executable by your user? There are the test results I got: 

$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i586-linux-thread-multi

$ perl -MCwd -le 'chdir "/tmp"; print getcwd();'
/tmp

$ perl -MCwd -le 'chdir "/root"; print getcwd();'

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In reply to Re: function chdir in Module Cwd broken? by Aighearach
in thread function chdir in Module Cwd broken? by jethro

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