First of all, let me welcome you to Pelmonks erc_fun and thank you for registering. I stand corrected due to the kind admonishments of BrowserUk and I agree with him when he says:

"And going by your demonstration of the failure, the problem appears to clearly lie entirely within, or as a side effect of using the Forks module,..

Howerver I still have to desagree with him as to :

"...and I see no way that re-building perl would have any effect whatsoever."

Obviously there is some difference between your two systems and we still don't know what that difference is.

One thing I noticed, your perl was built with native threads. From your original post:

usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define

Which , at best, is redundant to the forks module and, at worst, is colliding with forks and causing your problem. (I can't confirm either way as I can't get the forks module to complete make test on my system.)

Look, I don't know how to fix your system. You have three choices.

  • Change your code.
  • Write more tests in hopes of further isolating the problem.
  • Start swinging a hammer. i.e. rebuild perl, rebuild forks.

    To rebuild perl see Install parallel Perl on Debian
    To rebuild forks see A Guide to Installing Modules

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    In reply to Re: bad ping status with the forks module by starbolin
    in thread bad ping status with the forks module by Anonymous Monk

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