Greetings,
It's been a long time since I've had any software issue with my NSLU2 but today I decided to "ipkg upgrade" and run into a broken perl.
Symptom: awstats (a perl script) stopped working with mysterious errors such as below (recorded for posterity to help the next searching soul):
"Warning: Can't read file "status_http.
After checking the script, I determined that the perl built-in "-s", which returns the size of a file in bytes, is broken and returns always 0. Therefore:
$ ls -l lib/status_http.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 u u 2083 Jun 21 2009 lib/status_http.
$ perl -e 'print -s "lib/status_
0
(should have been 2083 bytes, not 0).
The issue is in package perl_5.8.8-23_
I did try removing and then force-install the perl packages again to no avail.
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