Im getting the mysql/DBH 'segmentation fault' error this morning. I have it 'pruned' down to a small sample. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use DBI;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use XML::Simple;
use Date::Manip;

my $db_user = 'db_user';
my $db_pw = 'dbpw';

##
# DB connect
my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:db_name:db_host', $db_user, $db_pw, 
+ {PrintError => 1, AutoCommit => 1, RaiseError => 1} );
if (DBI::err)
{   
        die $DBI::errstr;
}

my $xml = new XML::Simple (KeyAttr=>[]);

my $Browser = new LWP::UserAgent;

push @{ $Browser->requests_redirectable }, 'POST';

my $URL = 'https://some_site_with_xml_data';
my %Fields;

##################note this code#################
##
my $Page = $Browser->request(POST $URL,\%Fields);
##
#################################################
# clean up
$dbh->disconnect();

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If I run the above code I get a 'segmentation fault' error. If I comment out the call to browser->request the error goes away. Its coming from DBI/DBH.

The snip is from a larger file that opens the XML data and walks through it. Im wanting to retrieve several values from this file and put them in a DB. The code was working until I added the calls to DBI. I pruned until I could get the error to go away.

Suggestions? I've used DBI::mysql in plenty of other projects before. Im not clear on why its not happy with this group of modules.

In reply to DBH - segmentation fault - out of memory? by ethrbunny

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