This works fine (FreeBSD 4.9, perl 5.8.0, gd-2.0.33_4, GD 2.34): 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper 'Dumper';
use GD::Graph::linespoints;

my @month = qw(Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec);

my $data= [
           [ '1155279600', '1156366000', '1157452400', ],
           [ '88', '93', '23', ]
          ];

    my %arg = (
        marker_size     => 1,
        x_label         => 'Date',
        x_min_value     => $data->[0]->[0],
        x_max_value     => $data->[0]->[-1],
        x_tick_number   => 7,
        x_tick_offset   => 1,
        x_number_format => \&convert_date,
        y_label         => 'Inventory Count',
        y_tick_number   => 5,
    );

    # create graph
    my $graph = GD::Graph::linespoints->new(750,450);
    $graph->set(%arg) or die $graph->error.Dumper(\%arg);

    my $gd = $graph->plot($data) or die $graph->error.Dumper($data);

    # write graph to disk
    open(my $graphfile, '>', "/home/clive/public_html/tmp2.png") || di
+e $!;;
    binmode $graphfile;
    print {$graphfile} $gd->png;
    close($graphfile);

sub convert_date {
    my $epoch_time = shift;
    my @t = localtime($epoch_time);
    return sprintf("%02d %s %d", $t[3], $month[ $t[4] ], $t[5]+1900);
}

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Creating this image. However, if I switch to GD::Graph::area (which is what I need to use), I get this empty one.

If I then change the data to this:

my $data= [
           [ '1', '2', '3', ],
           [ '1', '2', '3', ]
          ];

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I get a real graph.

No error messages appear at all. I've been scratching my head on this one for an hour. Anyone got any idea what's up?

In reply to GD::Graph::area failing with no error... by cLive ;-)

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