in reply to Berkeley Database Question

Searching the BerkeleyDB documentation for $! I imediately came accross  or die "Cannot open file $filename: $! $BerkeleyDB::Error\n" ;. So, what does your $BerkeleyDB::Error say?

update: Try adding some flags

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