Without knowing anything more about your installation (which might in fact be broken), my best guess is that your column method on $data is not binary-clean.

You can test to see if freeze and thaw are working with a small one-liner:

$ perl -MStorable=freeze,thaw \
  -lwe 'print ${ thaw freeze \"hi mom" }'
hi mom

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You can also test your column method more specifically, something like this:

use bytes;
my $orig = join '', map chr($_), 0 .. 255;
$data->column( 'data', $orig );
my $new = $data->column( 'data' );
if ( $orig ne $new )
{
    die "method 'column' is not binary clean!";
}

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In reply to Re: Storable perl module error? by tkil
in thread Storable perl module error? by johnsaunders

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