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Neither script produces error messages. I added some debugging statements inside prefs.pm so I could see the execution flow (and fixed the newval statement):

pref.pm
package prefs;

use strict;

use Config::IniFiles;
our @ISA = qw( Config::IniFiles );

sub new {

   my $self = shift;
   my $class = (ref $self) || $self;

   print "creating $class\n";

   my $fname = 'fubar.ini';

   my $obj;

   if (-f $fname) {
      $obj = $self->SUPER::new( -file => $fname );

   } else {
      $obj = $self->SUPER::new();
      $obj->SetFileName( $fname );
      $obj->newval('fubar', 'var1', 'default');
   }

   return bless($obj, $class);
}

sub DESTROY {

   my $self = shift;

   $self->RewriteConfig();

   print "destroying $self\n";

   $self->SUPER::DESTROY(@_);
}

1;

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Here is the output: 

C:\>t1.pl
creating prefs
destroying prefs=HASH(0x224fc4)

C:\>dir
 Directory of C:\

05/26/2005  03:58 PM                23 fubar.ini
05/26/2005  03:55 PM               646 prefs.pm
05/25/2005  12:33 PM                78 t1.pl
05/25/2005  12:34 PM                79 t2.pl

C:\>t2.pl
creating prefs

C:\>dir
 Directory of C:\

05/26/2005  03:58 PM                23 fubar.ini
05/26/2005  03:58 PM                 9 fubar.ini-new
05/26/2005  03:55 PM               646 prefs.pm
05/25/2005  12:33 PM                78 t1.pl
05/25/2005  12:34 PM                79 t2.pl

C:\>del fubar*

C:\>dir
 Directory of C:\

05/26/2005  03:55 PM               646 prefs.pm
05/25/2005  12:33 PM                78 t1.pl
05/25/2005  12:34 PM                79 t2.pl

C:\>t2.pl
creating prefs
destroying prefs=HASH(0x224fc4)

C:\>dir
 Directory of C:\

05/26/2005  03:59 PM                23 fubar.ini
05/26/2005  03:55 PM               646 prefs.pm
05/25/2005  12:33 PM                78 t1.pl
05/25/2005  12:34 PM                79 t2.pl

C:\>t1.pl
creating prefs
destroying prefs=HASH(0x18245c4)

C:\>dir
 Directory of C:\

05/26/2005  03:59 PM                23 fubar.ini
05/26/2005  03:55 PM               646 prefs.pm
05/25/2005  12:33 PM                78 t1.pl
05/25/2005  12:34 PM                79 t2.pl

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I am using Perl 5.8.6 on Win32 (Windows XP) with Config::IniFiles 2.38. I am able to reproduce the same problem on Solaris 8 with Perl 5.8.0 and Config::IniFiles 2.38.

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