Well, maybe somebody answered your question in the chatterbox, but just in case - the problem is you are trying to 'thaw' something that hasn't been 'frozen', try this instead:

use strict;
use Storable qw(freeze thaw);

my %to_be_frozen = (foo => 'bar');
my (%thawed,$frozen);

eval {
    $frozen = freeze \%to_be_frozen;
};
if($@) { die "error while freezing: $@" }

print "it froze it\n";

eval {
    %thawed = %{ thaw $frozen };
};
if($@) { warn "there was a THAWING error\n" }
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UPDATE:
Ok, now i understand what you mean - i added this line:

eval {
    my $foo = thaw 'asdasdasdasd'; 
};
if($@) { warn "there was a THAWING error\n" }
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just before the first eval in my code above and received this output:

$ ./foo.pl
there was a THAWING error
error while freezing: Bad hash at blib/lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into
+ blib/lib/auto/Storable/_freeze.al)
   line 261, at ./foo.pl line 19
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If this is indeed a bug in Storable, then I would send word to the author . . .

Jeff

R-R-R--R-R-R--R-R-R--R-R-R--R-R-R--
L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--

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