> So I went back and looked closely at the output of the server start again, and
there it was, as the first line of output:

One of the earliest lessons I learned about Perl - and that I teach to my students these days - is "always look at the first reported error. Often, solving that one takes care of all or many of the subsequent ones."

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. -- HG Wells