I am trying to make use of Lingua::Ispell on a Solaris 9 host running iPlanet 6.0sp3, and I'm getting inconsistent results with the following code:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Lingua::Ispell;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use Data::Dumper;
$| = 1;
print CGI::header(-expires => '-1d');
my @words = Lingua::Ispell::spellcheck("word asdfa");
foreach my $r (@words) { print("<pre>\n", Dumper($r), "</pre>\n") }
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I've added a SIGPIPE handler to Lingua::Ispell, and when it traps, it traps near Lingua::Ispell's IPC::Open2::open2() call (and a core file is generated).

My confusion seems to stem from an iPlanet configuration issue--this code works correctly from the command line and on a FreeBSD/Apache host. The iPlanet failure is also sporadic--I see correct output about once per twenty reloads.

Does anyone know of any places where I can look for troubleshooting this further or correcting it (other than converting to Apache)? There aren't resource limits imposed that should cause inconsistent faulting. From a cursory inspection, the CGI settings for iPlanet don't look like they are customized.

Thanks in advance!