marscld has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, Would you please help on the following scenario? A CGI::Session module has been installed on Solaris,sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R. The user is tester, without admin privilege. A command is used 
perl Makefile.PL LIB=/home/tester/PerlModule

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Then, a script would be used to test the CGI::Session functionality. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use lib '/home/tester/PerlModule';
use CGI::Session;

my $session = new CGI::Session() or die CGI::Session->errstr;
print "test end***\n";

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After run the script, following error is shown. 
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /home/sdb
+admin/PerlModule/CGI/Session.pm line 128.
Can't locate object method "generate_id" via package "CGI::Session::ID
+::" (perhaps you forgot to load "CGI::Session::ID::"?) at /home/sdbad
+min/PerlModule/CGI/Session.pm line 74.

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Could you pls help to analyse this issue? Thank you.

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Re: CGI::Session not work
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Dec 08, 2007 at 23:35 UTC

    Looks like your installed version is broken and the local version you're trying to call isn't really there. 

     /home/sdbadmin/PerlModule/CGI/Session.pm <-- error
     ne
 /home/tester/PerlModule <-- attempted but unused path

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    Look in /home/tester/PerlModule and you will probably see that CGI::Session is a) missing, b) in a slightly deeper path like perl5/lib or something.

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      Thanks for the reply. Then, I've tried to installed it in /home/sdbadmin and change the related script. 
      #!/usr/bin/perl
use lib '/home/sdbadmin/PerlModule';
use CGI::Session;

my $session = new CGI::Session() or die CGI::Session->errstr;
print "test end***\n";

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      However, the error message is the same. Could you pls help ? Is it meaning that installaion of CGI::Session crashed? Error: 
      <b>Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /home/
+sdbadmin/PerlModule/CGI/Session.pm line 128.
Can't locate object method "generate_id" via package "CGI::Session::ID
+::" (perhaps you forgot to load "CGI::Session::ID::"?) at /home/sdbad
+min/PerlModule/CGI/Session.pm line 74.
</b>

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        Your installation looks bad/partial. Try from the CPAN shell -- [sudo] perl -MCPAN -e shell + install CGI::Session -- or from scratch with a fresh download.

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