Server error
See Server error.
?+* follows nothing in regexp
(F) You started a regular expression with a
quantifier. Backslash it if you meant it literally. See the perlre manpage.
@ outside of string
(F) You had a pack template that specified an absolute
position outside the string being unpacked. See pack.
accept() on closed fd
(W) You tried to do an accept on a closed socket. Did
you forget to check the return value of your socket call? See accept.
Allocation too large: %lx
(X) You can't allocate more than
64K on an
MSDOS machine.
Allocation too large
(F) You can't allocate more than 2^31+``small amount''
bytes.
Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s)
(W) The pattern match (//), substitution (s///), and
translation (tr///) operators work on scalar values. If you apply one of
them to an array or a hash, it will convert the array or hash to a scalar
value -- the length of an array, or the population info of a hash -- and
then work on that scalar value. This is probably not what you meant to do.
See
grep and map for alternatives.
Arg too short for msgsnd
(F) msgsnd requires a string at least as
long as sizeof.
Ambiguous use of %s resolved as %s
(W)(S) You said something that may not be interpreted
the way you thought. Normally it's pretty easy to disambiguate it by
supplying a missing quote, operator, parenthesis pair or declaration.
Args must match #! line
(F) The setuid emulator requires that the arguments
Perl was invoked with match the arguments specified on the #! line. Since
some systems impose a one-argument limit on the #! line, try combining
switches; for example, turn -w -U into -wU.
Argument "%s" isn't numeric%s
(W) The indicated string was fed as an argument to an
operator that expected a numeric value instead. If you're fortunate the
message will identify which operator was so unfortunate.
Array @%s missing the @ in argument %d of %s()
(D) Really old Perl let you omit the @ on array names
in some spots. This is now heavily deprecated.
assertion botched: %s
(P) The malloc package that comes with Perl had an
internal failure.
Assertion failed: file "%s"
(P)
A general assertion failed. The file in question must be examined.
Assignment to both a list and a scalar
(F) If you assign to a conditional operator, the 2nd
and 3rd arguments must either both be scalars or both be lists. Otherwise
Perl won't know which context to supply to the right side.
Attempt to free non-arena SV: 0x%lx
(P) All
SV objects are supposed to be allocated from arenas that will be garbage collected on exit. An
SV was discovered to be outside any of those arenas.
Attempt to free non-existent shared string
(P) Perl maintains a reference counted internal table
of strings to optimize the storage and access of hash keys and other
strings. This indicates someone tried to decrement the reference count of a
string that can no longer be found in the table.
Attempt to free temp prematurely
(W) Mortalized values are supposed to be freed by the free_tmps routine. This indicates that something else is freeing the
SV before the free_tmps routine gets a chance, which means that the free_tmps routine will be freeing an unreferenced scalar when it does try to free it.
Attempt to free unreferenced glob pointers
(P) The reference counts got screwed up on symbol
aliases.
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar
(W) Perl went to decrement the reference count of a scalar to see if it would go to 0, and discovered that it had already gone to 0 earlier, and should have been freed, and in fact, probably was freed. This could indicate that SvREFCNT_dec was called too many times, or that SvREFCNT_inc was called too few times, or that the
SV was mortalized when it shouldn't have been, or that memory has been corrupted.
Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr
(W) You supplied a reference as the first argument to
substr used as an lvalue, which is pretty strange. Perhaps you
forgot to dereference it first. See substr.
Bad arg length for %s, is %d, should be %d
(F) You passed a buffer of the wrong size to one of msgctl, semctl or shmctl. In
C parlance, the correct sizes are, respectively,
sizeof(struct msqid_ds *), sizeof(struct semid_ds *), and
sizeof(struct shmid_ds *).
Bad filehandle: %s
(F)
A symbol was passed to something wanting a filehandle, but the symbol has no filehandle associated with it. Perhaps you didn't do an open, or did it in another package.
Bad free() ignored
(S) An internal routine called free on
something that had never been malloced in the first place.
Mandatory, but can be disabled by setting environment variable PERL_BADFREE to 1.
This message can be quite often seen with DB_File on systems with ``hard''
dynamic linking, like AIX and OS/2. It is a bug of
Berkeley DB which is left unnoticed if DB uses forgiving
system malloc.
Bad hash
(P) One of the internal hash routines was passed a null
HV pointer.
Bad name after %s::
(F) You started to name a symbol by using a package
prefix, and then didn't finish the symbol. In particular, you can't
interpolate outside of quotes, so
$var = 'myvar';
$sym = mypack::$var;
is not the same as
$var = 'myvar';
$sym = "mypack::$var";
Bad symbol for array
(P) An internal request asked to add an array entry to
something that wasn't a symbol table entry.
Bad symbol for filehandle
(P) An internal request asked to add a filehandle
entry to something that wasn't a symbol table entry.
Bad symbol for hash
(P) An internal request asked to add a hash entry to
something that wasn't a symbol table entry.
Badly placed ()'s
(A) You've accidentally run your script through csh instead of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl
yourself.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted
(F) An untrapped exception was raised while executing a
BEGIN subroutine. Compilation stops immediately and the interpreter is exited.
bind() on closed fd
(W) You tried to do a bind on a closed socket. Did you
forget to check the return value of your socket call? See bind.
Bizarre copy of %s in %s
(P) Perl detected an attempt to copy an internal value
that is not copiable.
Callback called exit
(F)
A subroutine invoked from an external package via perl_call_sv exited by calling exit.
Can't "goto" outside a block
(F)
A ``goto'' statement was executed to jump out of what might look like a block, except that it isn't a proper block. This usually occurs if you tried to jump out of a sort block or subroutine, which is a no-no. See
goto.
Can't "last" outside a block
(F)
A ``last'' statement was executed to break out of the current block, except that there's this itty bitty problem called there isn't a current block. Note that an ``if'' or ``else'' block doesn't count as a ``loopish'' block, as doesn't a block given to sort. You can usually double the curlies to get the same effect though, because the inner curlies will be considered a block that loops once. See
last.
Can't "next" outside a block
(F)
A ``next'' statement was executed to reiterate the current block, but there isn't a current block. Note that an ``if'' or ``else'' block doesn't count as a ``loopish'' block, as doesn't a block given to sort. You can usually double the curlies to get the same effect though, because the inner curlies will be considered a block that loops once. See
last.
Can't "redo" outside a block
(F)
A ``redo'' statement was executed to restart the current block, but there isn't a current block. Note that an ``if'' or ``else'' block doesn't count as a ``loopish'' block, as doesn't a block given to sort. You can usually double the curlies to get the same effect though, because the inner curlies will be considered a block that loops once. See
last.
Can't bless non-reference value
(F) Only hard references may be blessed. This is how
Perl ``enforces'' encapsulation of objects. See the perlobj manpage.
Can't break at that line
(S)
A warning intended for while running within the debugger, indicating the line number specified wasn't the location of a statement that could be stopped at.
Can't call method "%s" in empty package "%s"
(F) You called a method correctly, and it correctly indicated a package functioning as a class, but that package doesn't have
ANYTHING defined in it, let alone methods. See
the perlobj manpage.
Can't call method "%s" on unblessed reference
(F)
A method call must know what package it's supposed to run in. It ordinarily finds this out from the object reference you supply, but you didn't supply an object reference in this case.
A reference isn't an object reference until it has been blessed. See
the perlobj manpage.
Can't call method "%s" without a package or object reference
(F) You used the syntax of a method call, but the slot
filled by the object reference or package name contains an expression that
returns neither an object reference nor a package name. (Perhaps it's
null?) Something like this will reproduce the error:
$BADREF = undef;
process $BADREF 1,2,3;
$BADREF->process(1,2,3);
Can't chdir to %s
(F) You called perl -x/foo/bar, but /foo/bar is not a directory that you can chdir to, possibly because it doesn't
exist.
Can't coerce %s to integer in %s
(F) Certain types of SVs, in particular real symbol
table entries (typeglobs), can't be forced to stop being what they are. So
you can't say things like:
*foo += 1;
You
CAN say
$foo = *foo;
$foo += 1;
but then $foo no longer contains a glob.
Can't coerce %s to number in %s
(F) Certain types of SVs, in particular real symbol
table entries (typeglobs), can't be forced to stop being what they are.
Can't coerce %s to string in %s
(F) Certain types of SVs, in particular real symbol
table entries (typeglobs), can't be forced to stop being what they are.
Can't create pipe mailbox
(P) An error peculiar to
VMS. The process is suffering from exhausted quotas or other plumbing problems.
Can't declare %s in my
(F) Only scalar, array, and hash variables may be
declared as lexical variables. They must have ordinary identifiers as
names.
Can't do inplace edit on %s: %s
(S) The creation of the new file failed for the
indicated reason.
Can't do in-place edit without backup
(F) You're on a system such as
MSDOS that gets confused if you try reading from a deleted (but still opened) file. You have to say
-i.bak, or some such.
Can't do inplace edit: %s gt 14 characters
(S) There isn't enough room in the filename to make a
backup name for the file.
Can't do inplace edit: %s is not a regular file
(S) You tried to use the -i switch on a special file, such as a file in /dev, or a
FIFO. The file was ignored.
Can't do setegid!
(P) The setegid call failed for some
reason in the setuid emulator of suidperl.
Can't do seteuid!
(P) The setuid emulator of suidperl failed for some
reason.
Can't do setuid
(F) This typically means that ordinary perl tried to
exec suidperl to do setuid emulation, but couldn't exec it. It looks for a
name of the form sperl5.000 in the same directory that the perl executable
resides under the name perl5.000, typically /usr/local/bin on Unix
machines. If the file is there, check the execute permissions. If it isn't,
ask your sysadmin why he and/or she removed it.
Can't do waitpid with flags
(F) This machine doesn't have either
waitpid or wait4, so only waitpid
without flags is emulated.
Can't do {n,m} with n gt m
(F) Minima must be less than or equal to maxima. If
you really want your regexp to match something 0 times, just put {0}. See the perlre manpage.
Can't emulate -%s on #! line
(F) The #! line specifies a switch that doesn't make
sense at this point. For example, it'd be kind of silly to put a -x on the #! line.
Can't exec "%s": %s
(W) An system, exec, or
piped open call could not execute the named program for the indicated
reason. Typical reasons include: the permissions were wrong on the file,
the file wasn't found in $ENV{PATH}, the executable in question was compiled for another architecture, or the
#! line in a script points to an interpreter that can't be run for similar
reasons. (Or maybe your system doesn't support #! at all.)
Can't exec %s
(F) Perl was trying to execute the indicated program
for you because that's what the #! line said. If that's not what you
wanted, you may need to mention ``perl'' on the #! line somewhere.
Can't execute %s
(F) You used the -S switch, but the script to execute could not be found in the
PATH, or at least not with the correct permissions.
Can't find label %s
(F) You said to goto a label that isn't mentioned
anywhere that it's possible for us to go to. See goto.
Can't find string terminator %s anywhere before EOF
(F) Perl strings can stretch over multiple lines. This
message means that the closing delimiter was omitted. Because bracketed
quotes count nesting levels, the following is missing its final
parenthesis:
print q(The character '(' starts a side comment.)
Can't fork
(F)
A fatal error occurred while trying to fork while opening a pipeline.
Unsupported function fork
(F) Your version of executable does not support
forking.
Note that under some systems, like
OS/2, there may be different flavors of Perl
executables, some of which may support fork, some not. Try changing the
name you call Perl by to perl_, perl__, and so on.
Can't get filespec - stale stat buffer?
(S)
A warning peculiar to
VMS. This arises because of the difference between access checks under
VMS and under the Unix model Perl assumes. Under
VMS, access checks are done by filename, rather than by bits in the stat buffer, so that ACLs and other protections can be taken into account. Unfortunately, Perl assumes that the stat buffer contains all the necessary information, and passes it, instead of the filespec, to the access checking routine. It will try to retrieve the filespec using the device name and
FID present in the stat buffer, but this works only if you haven't made a subsequent call to the
CRTL stat routine, because the device name is overwritten with each call. If this warning appears, the name lookup failed, and the access checking routine gave up and returned
FALSE, just to be conservative. (Note: The access checking routine knows about the Perl
stat operator and file tests, so you shouldn't ever see this warning in response
to a Perl command; it arises only if some internal code takes stat buffers
lightly.)
Can't get pipe mailbox device name
(P) An error peculiar to
VMS. After creating a mailbox to act as a pipe, Perl can't retrieve its name for later use.
Can't get SYSGEN parameter value for MAXBUF
(P) An error peculiar to
VMS. Perl asked $GETSYI how big you want your mailbox buffers to be, and didn't get an answer.
Can't goto subroutine outside a subroutine
(F) The deeply magical ``goto subroutine'' call can only replace one subroutine call for another. It can't manufacture one out of whole cloth. In general you should be calling it out of only an
AUTOLOAD routine anyway. See
goto.
Can't localize a reference
(F) You said something like local $$ref, which is not allowed because the compiler can't determine whether $ref will end up
pointing to anything with a symbol table entry, and a symbol table entry is
necessary to do a local.
Can't localize lexical variable %s
(F) You used local on a variable name that was
previously declared as a lexical variable using ``my''. This is not
allowed. If you want to localize a package variable of the same name,
qualify it with the package name.
Can't locate %s in @INC
(F) You said to do (or require, or use) a file that couldn't be found in any of the libraries mentioned in
@INC. Perhaps you need to set the
PERL5LIB environment variable to say where the extra library is, or maybe the script needs to add the library name to
@INC. Or maybe you just misspelled the name of the file. See
require.
Can't locate object method "%s" via package "%s"
(F) You called a method correctly, and it correctly
indicated a package functioning as a class, but that package doesn't define
that particular method, nor does any of its base classes. See the perlobj manpage.
Can't locate package %s for @%s::ISA
(W) The @ISA array contained the name of
another package that doesn't seem to exist.
Can't mktemp()
(F) The mktemp routine failed for some
reason while trying to process a -e switch. Maybe your /tmp partition is full, or clobbered.
Can't modify %s in %s
(F) You aren't allowed to assign to the item
indicated, or otherwise try to change it, such as with an auto-increment.
Can't modify non-existent substring
(P) The internal routine that does assignment to a substr was handed a
NULL.
Can't msgrcv to read-only var
(F) The target of a msgrcv must be modifiable to be
used as a receive buffer.
Can't open %s: %s
(S) An inplace edit couldn't open the original file
for the indicated reason. Usually this is because you don't have read
permission for the file.
Can't open bidirectional pipe
(W) You tried to say open, which is not supported. You can try any of several modules in the Perl
library to do this, such as IPC::Open2. Alternately, direct the pipe's
output to a file using ``>'', and then read it in under a different file handle.
Can't open error file %s as stderr
(F) An error peculiar to
VMS. Perl does its own command line redirection, and couldn't open the file specified after '2
>' or '2>>' on the command line for writing.
Can't open input file %s as stdin
(F) An error peculiar to
VMS. Perl does its own command line redirection, and couldn't open the file specified after '
<' on the command line for reading.
Can't open output file %s as stdout
(F) An error peculiar to
VMS. Perl does its own command line redirection, and couldn't open the file specified after '
>' or '>>' on the command line for writing.
Can't open output pipe (name: %s)
(P) An error peculiar to
VMS. Perl does its own command line redirection, and couldn't open the pipe into which to send data destined for stdout.
Can't open perl script "%s": %s
(F) The script you specified can't be opened for the
indicated reason.
Can't rename %s to %s: %s, skipping file
(S) The rename done by the -i switch failed for some reason, probably because you don't have write
permission to the directory.
Can't reopen input pipe (name: %s) in binary mode
(P) An error peculiar to
VMS. Perl thought stdin was a pipe, and tried to reopen it to accept binary data. Alas, it failed.
Can't reswap uid and euid
(P) The setreuid call failed for some
reason in the setuid emulator of suidperl.
Can't return outside a subroutine
(F) The return statement was executed in mainline
code, that is, where there was no subroutine call to return out of. See the perlsub manpage.
Can't stat script "%s"
(P) For some reason you can't fstat the
script even though you have it open already. Bizarre.
Can't swap uid and euid
(P) The setreuid call failed for some
reason in the setuid emulator of suidperl.
Can't take log of %g
(F) Logarithms are defined on only positive real
numbers.
Can't take sqrt of %g
(F) For ordinary real numbers, you can't take the
square root of a negative number. There's a Complex package available for
Perl, though, if you really want to do that.
Can't undef active subroutine
(F) You can't undefine a routine that's currently
running. You can, however, redefine it while it's running, and you can even
undef the redefined subroutine while the old routine is running. Go figure.
Can't unshift
(F) You tried to unshift an ``unreal'' array that
can't be unshifted, such as the main Perl stack.
Can't upgrade that kind of scalar
(P) The internal sv_upgrade routine adds ``members'' to an
SV, making it into a more specialized kind of
SV. The top several
SV types are so specialized, however, that they cannot be interconverted. This message indicates that such a conversion was attempted.
Can't upgrade to undef
(P) The undefined
SV is the bottom of the totem pole, in the scheme of upgradability. Upgrading to undef indicates an error in the code calling sv_upgrade.
Can't use "my %s" in sort comparison
(F) The global variables $a and
$b are reserved for sort comparisons. You mentioned
$a or $b in the same line as the <=> or cmp operator, and the variable had earlier been declared as a lexical
variable. Either qualify the sort variable with the package name, or rename
the lexical variable.
Can't use %s for loop variable
(F) Only a simple scalar variable may be used as a
loop variable on a foreach.
Can't use %s ref as %s ref
(F) You've mixed up your reference types. You have to
dereference a reference of the type needed. You can use the
ref function to test the type of the reference, if need be.
Can't use \1 to mean $1 in expression
(W) In an ordinary expression, backslash is a unary
operator that creates a reference to its argument. The use of backslash to
indicate a backreference to a matched substring is valid only as part of a
regular expression pattern. Trying to do this in ordinary Perl code
produces a value that prints out looking like SCALAR. Use the
$1 form instead.
Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while \"strict refs\" in use
(F) Only hard references are allowed by ``strict
refs''. Symbolic references are disallowed. See the perlref manpage.
Can't use string ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in use
(F) Only hard references are allowed by ``strict
refs''. Symbolic references are disallowed. See the perlref manpage.
Can't use an undefined value as %s reference
(F)
A value used as either a hard reference or a symbolic reference must be a defined value. This helps to de-lurk some insidious errors.
Can't use global %s in "my"
(F) You tried to declare a magical variable as a
lexical variable. This is not allowed, because the magic can be tied to
only one location (namely the global variable) and it would be incredibly
confusing to have variables in your program that looked like magical
variables but weren't.
Can't use subscript on %s
(F) The compiler tried to interpret a bracketed
expression as a subscript. But to the left of the brackets was an
expression that didn't look like an array reference, or anything else
subscriptable.
Can't write to temp file for -e: %s
(F) The write routine failed for some reason while
trying to process a -e switch. Maybe your /tmp partition is full, or clobbered.
Can't x= to read-only value
(F) You tried to repeat a constant value (often the
undefined value) with an assignment operator, which implies modifying the
value itself. Perhaps you need to copy the value to a temporary, and repeat
that.
Cannot open temporary file
(F) The create routine failed for some reason while
trying to process a -e switch. Maybe your /tmp partition is full, or clobbered.
Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s'
(F|P) Error resolving overloading specified by a
method name (as opposed to a subroutine reference): no such method callable
via the package. If method name is ???, this is an internal error.
chmod: mode argument is missing initial 0
(W)
A novice will sometimes say
chmod 777, $filename
not realizing that 777 will be interpreted as a decimal number, equivalent to 01411. Octal constants are introduced with a leading 0 in Perl, as in
C.
Close on unopened file lt%sgt
(W) You tried to close a filehandle that was never
opened.
connect() on closed fd
(W) You tried to do a connect on a closed socket. Did
you forget to check the return value of your socket call? See connect.
Constant subroutine %s redefined
(S) You redefined a subroutine which had previously
been eligible for inlining. See Constant Functions for commentary and workarounds.
Constant subroutine %s undefined
(S) You undefined a subroutine which had previously
been eligible for inlining. See Constant Functions for commentary and workarounds.
Copy method did not return a reference
(F) The method which overloads ``='' is buggy. See Copy Constructor.
Corrupt malloc ptr 0x%lx at 0x%lx
(P) The malloc package that comes with Perl had an
internal failure.
corrupted regexp pointers
(P) The regular expression engine got confused by what
the regular expression compiler gave it.
corrupted regexp program
(P) The regular expression engine got passed a regexp
program without a valid magic number.
Deep recursion on subroutine "%s"
(W) This subroutine has called itself (directly or
indirectly) 100 times than it has returned. This probably indicates an
infinite recursion, unless you're writing strange benchmark programs, in
which case it indicates something else.
Did you mean &%s instead?
(W) You probably referred to an imported subroutine
&FOO as $FOO or some such.
Did you mean $ or @ instead of %?
(W) You probably said %hash{$key} when you meant
$hash{$key} or @hash{@keys}. On the other hand, maybe you just meant
%hash and got carried away.
Died
(F) You passed die an empty string (the
equivalent of die "") or you called it with no args and both $@ and $_ were empty.
Do you need to pre-declare %s?
(S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message ``%s found where operator expected''. It often means a subroutine or module name is being referenced that hasn't been declared yet. This may be because of ordering problems in your file, or because of a missing ``sub'', ``package'', ``require'', or ``use'' statement. If you're referencing something that isn't defined yet, you don't actually have to define the subroutine or package before the current location. You can use an empty ``sub foo;'' or ``package
FOO;'' to enter a ``forward'' declaration.
Don't know how to handle magic of type '%s'
(P) The internal handling of magical variables has
been cursed.
do_study: out of memory
(P) This should have been caught by
safemalloc instead.
Duplicate free() ignored
(S) An internal routine called free on
something that had already been freed.
elseif should be elsif
(S) There is no keyword ``elseif'' in Perl because
Larry thinks it's ugly. Your code will be interpreted as an attempt to call
a method named ``elseif'' for the class returned by the following block.
This is unlikely to be what you want.
END failed--cleanup aborted
(F) An untrapped exception was raised while executing an
END subroutine. The interpreter is immediately exited.
Error converting file specification %s
(F) An error peculiar to
VMS. Because Perl may have to deal with file specifications in either
VMS or Unix syntax, it converts them to a single form when it must operate on them directly. Either you've passed an invalid file specification to Perl, or you've found a case the conversion routines don't handle. Drat.
Execution of %s aborted due to compilation errors
(F) The final summary message when a Perl compilation
fails.
Exiting eval via %s
(W) You are exiting an eval by unconventional means,
such as a goto, or a loop control statement.
Exiting pseudo-block via %s
(W) You are exiting a rather special block construct
(like a sort block or subroutine) by unconventional means, such as a goto,
or a loop control statement. See sort.
Exiting subroutine via %s
(W) You are exiting a subroutine by unconventional
means, such as a goto, or a loop control statement.
Exiting substitution via %s
(W) You are exiting a substitution by unconventional
means, such as a return, a goto, or a loop control statement.
Fatal VMS error at %s, line %d
(P) An error peculiar to
VMS. Something untoward happened in a
VMS system service or
RTL routine; Perl's exit status should provide more details. The filename in ``at %s'' and the line number in ``line %d'' tell you which section of the Perl source code is distressed.
fcntl is not implemented
(F) Your machine apparently doesn't implement fcntl. What is this, a
PDP-11 or something?
Filehandle %s never opened
(W) An
I/O operation was attempted on a filehandle that was never initialized. You need to do an open or a socket call, or call a constructor from the FileHandle package.
Filehandle %s opened for only input
(W) You tried to write on a read-only filehandle. If
you intended it to be a read-write filehandle, you needed to open it with
``+<'' or ``+>'' or ``+>>`` instead of with ''<`` or nothing. If you intended only to write the file, use ''>`` or ''>>``. See
open.
Filehandle opened for only input
(W) You tried to write on a read-only filehandle. If
you intended it to be a read-write filehandle, you needed to open it with
``+<'' or ``+>'' or ``+>>`` instead of with ''<`` or nothing. If you intended only to write the file, use ''>`` or ''>>``. See
open.
Final $ should be \$ or $name
(F) You must now decide whether the final $ in a
string was meant to be a literal dollar sign, or was meant to introduce a
variable name that happens to be missing. So you have to put either the
backslash or the name.
Final @ should be \@ or @name
(F) You must now decide whether the final @ in a
string was meant to be a literal ``at'' sign, or was meant to introduce a
variable name that happens to be missing. So you have to put either the
backslash or the name.
Format %s redefined
(W) You redefined a format. To suppress this warning,
say
{
local $^W = 0;
eval "format NAME =...";
}
Format not terminated
(F)
A format must be terminated by a line with a solitary dot. Perl got to the end of your file without finding such a line.
Found = in conditional, should be ==
(W) You said
if ($foo = 123)
when you meant
if ($foo == 123)
(or something like that).
gdbm store returned %d, errno %d, key "%s"
(S)
A warning from the GDBM_File extension that a store failed.
gethostent not implemented
(F) Your
C library apparently doesn't implement gethostent, probably because if it did, it'd feel morally obligated to return every hostname on the Internet.
get{sock,peer}name() on closed fd
(W) You tried to get a socket or peer socket name on a
closed socket. Did you forget to check the return value of your
socket call?
getpwnam returned invalid UIC %#o for user "%s"
(S)
A warning peculiar to
VMS. The call to
sys$getuai underlying the
getpwnam operator returned an invalid
UIC.
Glob not terminated
(F) The lexer saw a left angle bracket in a place
where it was expecting a term, so it's looking for the corresponding right
angle bracket, and not finding it. Chances are you left some needed
parentheses out earlier in the line, and you really meant a ``less than''.
Global symbol "%s" requires explicit package name
(F) You've said ``use strict vars'', which indicates
that all variables must either be lexically scoped (using ``my''), or
explicitly qualified to say which package the global variable is in (using
``::'').
goto must have label
(F) Unlike with ``next'' or ``last'', you're not
allowed to goto an unspecified destination. See goto.
Had to create %s unexpectedly
(S)
A routine asked for a symbol from a symbol table that ought to have existed already, but for some reason it didn't, and had to be created on an emergency basis to prevent a core dump.
Hash %%s missing the % in argument %d of %s()
(D) Really old Perl let you omit the % on hash names
in some spots. This is now heavily deprecated.
Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter
(W)
A warning peculiar to
VMS.
A logical name was encountered when preparing to iterate over %ENV which violates the syntactic rules governing logical names. Because it cannot be translated normally, it is skipped, and will not appear in
%ENV. This may be a benign occurrence, as some software packages might directly modify logical name tables and introduce non-standard names, or it may indicate that a logical name table has been corrupted.
Illegal character %s (carriage return)
(F)
A carriage return character was found in the input. This is an error, and not a warning, because carriage return characters can break here documents (e.g.
print <<EOF;). Note that Perl always opens scripts in text mode, so this error should
only occur in eval.
Illegal division by zero
(F) You tried to divide a number by 0. Either
something was wrong in your logic, or you need to put a conditional in to
guard against meaningless input.
Illegal modulus zero
(F) You tried to divide a number by 0 to get the
remainder. Most numbers don't take to this kindly.
Illegal octal digit
(F) You used an 8 or 9 in a octal number.
Illegal octal digit ignored
(W) You may have tried to use an 8 or 9 in a octal
number. Interpretation of the octal number stopped before the 8 or 9.
In string, @%s now must be written as \@%s
(F) It used to be that Perl would try to guess whether
you wanted an array interpolated or a literal @. It did this when the
string was first used at runtime. Now strings are parsed at compile time,
and ambiguous instances of @ must be disambiguated, either by prepending a
backslash to indicate a literal, or by declaring (or using) the array
within the program before the string (lexically). (Someday it will simply
assume that an unbackslashed @ interpolates an array.)
Insecure dependency in %s
(F) You tried to do something that the tainting
mechanism didn't like. The tainting mechanism is turned on when you're
running setuid or setgid, or when you specify -T to turn it on explicitly. The tainting mechanism labels all data that's
derived directly or indirectly from the user, who is considered to be
unworthy of your trust. If any such data is used in a ``dangerous''
operation, you get this error. See the perlsec manpage
for more information.
Insecure directory in %s
(F) You can't use system,
exec, or a piped open in a setuid or setgid script if $ENV{PATH} contains a directory that is writable by the world. See the perlsec manpage.
Insecure PATH
(F) You can't use system,
exec, or a piped open in a setuid or setgid script if $ENV{PATH} is derived from data supplied (or potentially supplied) by the user. The
script must set the path to a known value, using trustworthy data. See the perlsec manpage.
Integer overflow in hex number
(S) The literal hex number you have specified is too
big for your architecture. On a 32-bit architecture the largest hex literal
is 0xFFFFFFFF.
Integer overflow in octal number
(S) The literal octal number you have specified is too
big for your architecture. On a 32-bit architecture the largest octal
literal is 037777777777.
Internal inconsistency in tracking vforks
(S)
A warning peculiar to
VMS. Perl keeps track of the number of times you've called
fork and exec, to determine whether the current call to exec should affect the current script or a subprocess (see exec). Somehow, this count has become scrambled, so Perl is making a guess and
treating this exec as a request to terminate the Perl script and execute the specified
command.
internal disaster in regexp
(P) Something went badly wrong in the regular
expression parser.
internal urp in regexp at /%s/
(P) Something went badly awry in the regular
expression parser.
invalid [] range in regexp
(F) The range specified in a character class had a
minimum character greater than the maximum character. See the perlre manpage.
ioctl is not implemented
(F) Your machine apparently doesn't implement ioctl, which is pretty strange for a machine that supports
C.
junk on end of regexp
(P) The regular expression parser is confused.
Label not found for "last %s"
(F) You named a loop to break out of, but you're not
currently in a loop of that name, not even if you count where you were
called from. See last.
Label not found for "next %s"
(F) You named a loop to continue, but you're not
currently in a loop of that name, not even if you count where you were
called from. See
last.
Label not found for "redo %s"
(F) You named a loop to restart, but you're not
currently in a loop of that name, not even if you count where you were
called from. See
last.
listen() on closed fd
(W) You tried to do a listen on a closed socket. Did
you forget to check the return value of your socket call? See listen.
Method for operation %s not found in package %s during blessing
(F) An attempt was made to specify an entry in an
overloading table that doesn't resolve to a valid subroutine. See the overload manpage.
Might be a runaway multi-line %s string starting on line %d
(S) An advisory indicating that the previous error may
have been caused by a missing delimiter on a string or pattern, because it
eventually ended earlier on the current line.
Misplaced _ in number
(W) An underline in a decimal constant wasn't on a
3-digit boundary.
Missing $ on loop variable
(F) Apparently you've been programming in csh too much. Variables are always mentioned with the $ in Perl, unlike in the
shells, where it can vary from one line to the next.
Missing comma after first argument to %s function
(F) While certain functions allow you to specify a
filehandle or an ``indirect object'' before the argument list, this ain't
one of them.
Missing operator before %s?
(S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with
the message ``%s found where operator expected''. Often the missing
operator is a comma.
Missing right bracket
(F) The lexer counted more opening curly brackets
(braces) than closing ones. As a general rule, you'll find it's missing
near the place you were last editing.
Missing semicolon on previous line?
(S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with
the message ``%s found where operator expected''. Don't automatically put a
semicolon on the previous line just because you saw this message.
Modification of a read-only value attempted
(F) You tried, directly or indirectly, to change the
value of a constant. You didn't, of course, try ``2 = 1'', because the
compiler catches that. But an easy way to do the same thing is:
sub mod { $_[0] = 1 }
mod(2);
Another way is to assign to a substr that's off the end of the
string.
Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript %d
(F) You tried to make an array value spring into
existence, and the subscript was probably negative, even counting from end
of the array backwards.
Modification of non-creatable hash value attempted, subscript "%s"
(F) You tried to make a hash value spring into
existence, and it couldn't be created for some peculiar reason.
Module name must be constant
(F) Only a bare module name is allowed as the first
argument to a ``use''.
msg%s not implemented
(F) You don't have System
V message
IPC on your system.
Multidimensional syntax %s not supported
(W) Multidimensional arrays aren't written like $foo[1,2,3]. They're written like $foo[1][2][3], as in
C.
Name "%s::%s" used only once: possible typo
(W) Typographical errors often show up as unique
variable names. If you had a good reason for having a unique name, then
just mention it again somehow to suppress the message (the use vars pragma is provided for just this purpose).
Negative length
(F) You tried to do a read/write/send/recv operation
with a buffer length that is less than 0. This is difficult to imagine.
nested *?+ in regexp
(F) You can't quantify a quantifier without
intervening parentheses. So things like ** or +* or ?* are illegal.
Note, however, that the minimal matching quantifiers, *?, +?, and ?? appear to be nested quantifiers, but aren't. See the perlre manpage.
No #! line
(F) The setuid emulator requires that scripts have a
well-formed #! line even on machines that don't support the #! construct.
No %s allowed while running setuid
(F) Certain operations are deemed to be too insecure
for a setuid or setgid script to even be allowed to attempt. Generally
speaking there will be another way to do what you want that is, if not
secure, at least securable. See the perlsec manpage.
No -e allowed in setuid scripts
(F)
A setuid script can't be specified by the user.
No comma allowed after %s
(F)
A list operator that has a filehandle or ``indirect object'' is not allowed to have a comma between that and the following arguments. Otherwise it'd be just another one of the arguments.
One possible cause for this is that you expected to have imported a
constant to your name space with use or import while no such importing took place, it may for example be that your
operating system does not support that particular constant. Hopefully you
did use an explicit import list for the constants you expect to see, please
see
use and import. While an explicit import list would probably have caught this error
earlier it naturally does not remedy the fact that your operating system
still does not support that constant. Maybe you have a typo in the
constants of the symbol import list of use or import or in the constant name at the line where this error was triggered?
No command into which to pipe on command line
(F) An error peculiar to
VMS. Perl handles its own command line redirection, and found a '|' at the end of the command line, so it doesn't know whither you want to pipe the output from this command.
No DB::DB routine defined
(F) The currently executing code was compiled with the -d switch, but for some reason the perl5db.pl file (or some facsimile thereof)
didn't define a routine to be called at the beginning of each statement.
Which is odd, because the file should have been required automatically, and
should have blown up the require if it didn't parse right.
No dbm on this machine
(P) This is counted as an internal error, because every machine should supply dbm nowadays, because Perl comes with
SDBM. See
the SDBM_File manpage.
No DBsub routine
(F) The currently executing code was compiled with the -d switch, but for some reason the perl5db.pl file (or some facsimile thereof)
didn't define a DB::sub routine to be called at the beginning of each
ordinary subroutine call.
No error file after 2gt or 2gtgt on command line
(F) An error peculiar to
VMS. Perl handles its own command line redirection, and found a '2
>' or a '2>>' on the command line, but can't find the name of the file to which to
write data destined for stderr.
No input file after lt on command line
(F) An error peculiar to
VMS. Perl handles its own command line redirection, and found a '
<' on the command line, but can't find the name of the file from which to
read data for stdin.
No output file after gt on command line
(F) An error peculiar to
VMS. Perl handles its own command line redirection, and found a lone '
>' at the end of the command line, so it doesn't know whither you wanted to
redirect stdout.
No output file after gt or gtgt on command line
(F) An error peculiar to
VMS. Perl handles its own command line redirection, and found a '
>' or a '>>' on the command line, but can't find the name of the file to which to
write data destined for stdout.
No Perl script found in input
(F) You called perl -x, but no line was found in the file beginning with #! and containing the
word ``perl''.
No setregid available
(F) Configure didn't find anything resembling the
setregid call for your system.
No setreuid available
(F) Configure didn't find anything resembling the
setreuid call for your system.
No space allowed after -I
(F) The argument to -I must follow the -I immediately with no intervening space.
No such pipe open
(P) An error peculiar to
VMS. The internal routine my_pclose tried to close a pipe which hadn't been opened. This should have been caught earlier as an attempt to close an unopened filehandle.
No such signal: SIG%s
(W) You specified a signal name as a subscript to
%SIG that was not recognized. Say kill -l in your shell to see the valid signal names on your system.
Not a CODE reference
(F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a code
value (that is, a subroutine), but found a reference to something else
instead. You can use the ref function to find out what kind of
ref it really was. See also the perlref manpage.
Not a format reference
(F) I'm not sure how you managed to generate a
reference to an anonymous format, but this indicates you did, and that it
didn't exist.
Not a GLOB reference
(F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a
``typeglob'' (that is, a symbol table entry that looks like *foo), but found a reference to something else instead. You can use the
ref function to find out what kind of ref it really was. See the perlref manpage.
Not a HASH reference
(F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a hash
value, but found a reference to something else instead. You can use the
ref function to find out what kind of ref it really was. See the perlref manpage.
Not a perl script
(F) The setuid emulator requires that scripts have a
well-formed #! line even on machines that don't support the #! construct.
The line must mention perl.
Not a SCALAR reference
(F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a
scalar value, but found a reference to something else instead. You can use
the ref function to find out what kind of ref it really was.
See the perlref manpage.
Not a subroutine reference
(F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a code
value (that is, a subroutine), but found a reference to something else
instead. You can use the ref function to find out what kind of
ref it really was. See also the perlref manpage.
Not a subroutine reference in overload table
(F) An attempt was made to specify an entry in an
overloading table that doesn't somehow point to a valid subroutine. See the overload manpage.
Not an ARRAY reference
(F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to an
array value, but found a reference to something else instead. You can use
the ref function to find out what kind of ref it really was.
See the perlref manpage.
Not enough arguments for %s
(F) The function requires more arguments than you
specified.
Not enough format arguments
(W)
A format specified more picture fields than the next line supplied. See
the perlform manpage.
Null filename used
(F) You can't require the null filename, especially
because on many machines that means the current directory! See require.
Null picture in formline
(F) The first argument to formline must be a valid
format picture specification. It was found to be empty, which probably
means you supplied it an uninitialized value. See the perlform manpage.
NULL OP IN RUN
(P) Some internal routine called run with
a null opcode pointer.
Null realloc
(P) An attempt was made to realloc
NULL.
NULL regexp argument
(P) The internal pattern matching routines blew it big
time.
NULL regexp parameter
(P) The internal pattern matching routines are out of
their gourd.
Odd number of elements in hash list
(S) You specified an odd number of elements to a hash
list, which is odd, because hash lists come in key/value pairs.
Offset outside string
(F) You tried to do a read/write/send/recv operation
with an offset pointing outside the buffer. This is difficult to imagine.
The sole exception to this is that sysreading past the buffer will extend the buffer and zero pad the new area.
oops: oopsAV
(S) An internal warning that the grammar is screwed
up.
oops: oopsHV
(S) An internal warning that the grammar is screwed
up.
Operation `%s': no method found,%s
(F) An attempt was made to perform an overloaded
operation for which no handler was defined. While some handlers can be
autogenerated in terms of other handlers, there is no default handler for
any operation, unless fallback overloading key is specified to be true. See the overload manpage.
Operator or semicolon missing before %s
(S) You used a variable or subroutine call where the
parser was expecting an operator. The parser has assumed you really meant
to use an operator, but this is highly likely to be incorrect. For example,
if you say ``*foo *foo'' it will be interpreted as if you said ``*foo *
'foo'''.
Out of memory for yacc stack
(F) The yacc parser wanted to grow its stack so it
could continue parsing, but realloc wouldn't give it more
memory, virtual or otherwise.
Out of memory!
(X|F) The malloc function returned 0,
indicating there was insufficient remaining memory (or virtual memory) to
satisfy the request.
The request was judged to be small, so the possibility to trap it depends
on the way perl was compiled. By default it is not trappable. However, if
compiled for this, Perl may use the contents of $^M as an emergency pool after dieing with this message. In this
case the error is trappable once.
Out of memory during request for %s
(F) The malloc function returned 0, indicating there was insufficient remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request. However, the request was judged large enough (compile-time default is
64K), so a possibility to shut down by trapping this error is granted.
page overflow
(W)
A single call to write produced more lines than can fit on a page. See
the perlform manpage.
panic: ck_grep
(P) Failed an internal consistency check trying to
compile a grep.
panic: ck_split
(P) Failed an internal consistency check trying to
compile a split.
panic: corrupt saved stack index
(P) The savestack was requested to restore more
localized values than there are in the savestack.
panic: die %s
(P) We popped the context stack to an eval context,
and then discovered it wasn't an eval context.
panic: do_match
(P) The internal pp_match routine was
called with invalid operational data.
panic: do_split
(P) Something terrible went wrong in setting up for
the split.
panic: do_subst
(P) The internal pp_subst routine was
called with invalid operational data.
panic: do_trans
(P) The internal do_trans routine was
called with invalid operational data.
panic: goto
(P) We popped the context stack to a context with the
specified label, and then discovered it wasn't a context we know how to do
a goto in.
panic: INTERPCASEMOD
(P) The lexer got into a bad state at a case modifier.
panic: INTERPCONCAT
(P) The lexer got into a bad state parsing a string
with brackets.
panic: last
(P) We popped the context stack to a block context,
and then discovered it wasn't a block context.
panic: leave_scope clearsv
(P)
A writable lexical variable became read-only somehow within the scope.
panic: leave_scope inconsistency
(P) The savestack probably got out of sync. At least,
there was an invalid enum on the top of it.
panic: malloc
(P) Something requested a negative number of bytes of
malloc.
panic: mapstart
(P) The compiler is screwed up with respect to the
map function.
panic: null array
(P) One of the internal array routines was passed a null
AV pointer.
panic: pad_alloc
(P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad
it was allocating and freeing temporaries and lexicals from.
panic: pad_free curpad
(P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad
it was allocating and freeing temporaries and lexicals from.
panic: pad_free po
(P) An invalid scratch pad offset was detected
internally.
panic: pad_reset curpad
(P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad
it was allocating and freeing temporaries and lexicals from.
panic: pad_sv po
(P) An invalid scratch pad offset was detected
internally.
panic: pad_swipe curpad
(P) The compiler got confused about which scratch pad
it was allocating and freeing temporaries and lexicals from.
panic: pad_swipe po
(P) An invalid scratch pad offset was detected
internally.
panic: pp_iter
(P) The foreach iterator got called in a non-loop
context frame.
panic: realloc
(P) Something requested a negative number of bytes of
realloc.
panic: restartop
(P) Some internal routine requested a goto (or
something like it), and didn't supply the destination.
panic: return
(P) We popped the context stack to a subroutine or
eval context, and then discovered it wasn't a subroutine or eval context.
panic: scan_num
(P) scan_num got called on something that
wasn't a number.
panic: sv_insert
(P) The sv_insert routine was told to
remove more string than there was string.
panic: top_env
(P) The compiler attempted to do a goto, or something
weird like that.
panic: yylex
(P) The lexer got into a bad state while processing a
case modifier.
Pareneses missing around "%s" list
(W) You said something like
my $foo, $bar = @_;
when you meant
my ($foo, $bar) = @_;
Remember that ``my'' and ``local'' bind closer than comma.
Perl %3.3f required--this is only version %s, stopped
(F) The module in question uses features of a version
of Perl more recent than the currently running version. How long has it
been since you upgraded, anyway? See require.
Permission denied
(F) The setuid emulator in suidperl decided you were
up to no good.
pid %d not a child
(W)
A warning peculiar to
VMS. Waitpid was asked to wait for a process which isn't a subprocess of the current process. While this is fine from
VMS' perspective, it's probably not what you intended.
POSIX getpgrp can't take an argument
(F) Your
C compiler uses
POSIX getpgrp, which takes no argument, unlike the
BSD version, which takes a pid.
Possible attempt to put comments in qw() list
(W) qw lists contain items separated by
whitespace; as with literal strings, comment characters are not ignored,
but are instead treated as literal data. (You may have used different
delimiters than the exclamation marks parentheses shown here; braces are
also frequently used.)
You probably wrote something like this:
@list = qw(
a # a comment
b # another comment
);
when you should have written this:
@list = qw(
a
b
);
If you really want comments, build your list the old-fashioned way, with
quotes and commas:
@list = (
'a', # a comment
'b', # another comment
);
Possible attempt to separate words with commas
(W) qw lists contain items separated by
whitespace; therefore commas aren't needed to separate the items. (You may
have used different delimiters than the parentheses shown here; braces are
also frequently used.)
You probably wrote something like this:
qw! a, b, c !;
which puts literal commas into some of the list items. Write it without
commas if you don't want them to appear in your data:
qw! a b c !;
Possible memory corruption: %s overflowed 3rd argument
(F) An ioctl or fcntl
returned more than Perl was bargaining for. Perl guesses a reasonable
buffer size, but puts a sentinel byte at the end of the buffer just in
case. This sentinel byte got clobbered, and Perl assumes that memory is now
corrupted. See ioctl.
Precedence problem: open %s should be open(%s)
(S) The old irregular construct
open FOO || die;
is now misinterpreted as
open(FOO || die);
because of the strict regularization of Perl 5's grammar into unary and
list operators. (The old open was a little of both.) You must put
parentheses around the filehandle, or use the new ``or'' operator instead
of ``||''.
print on closed filehandle %s
(W) The filehandle you're printing on got itself
closed sometime before now. Check your logic flow.
printf on closed filehandle %s
(W) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed
sometime before now. Check your logic flow.
Probable precedence problem on %s
(W) The compiler found a bare word where it expected a
conditional, which often indicates that an || or && was parsed as
part of the last argument of the previous construct, for example:
open FOO || die;
Prototype mismatch: (%s) vs (%s)
(S) The subroutine being defined had a pre-declared
(forward) declaration with a different function prototype.
Read on closed filehandle lt%sgt
(W) The filehandle you're reading from got itself
closed sometime before now. Check your logic flow.
Reallocation too large: %lx
(F) You can't allocate more than
64K on an
MSDOS machine.
Recompile perl with -DDEBUGGING to use -D switch
(F) You can't use the -D option unless the code to produce the desired output is compiled into Perl,
which entails some overhead, which is why it's currently left out of your
copy.
Recursive inheritance detected
(F) More than 100 levels of inheritance were used.
Probably indicates an unintended loop in your inheritance hierarchy.
Reference miscount in sv_replace()
(W) The internal sv_replace function was handed a new
SV with a reference count of other than 1.
regexp memory corruption
(P) The regular expression engine got confused by what
the regular expression compiler gave it.
regexp out of space
(P)
A ``can't happen'' error, because safemalloc should have caught it earlier.
regexp too big
(F) The current implementation of regular expressions
uses shorts as address offsets within a string. Unfortunately this means
that if the regular expression compiles to longer than 32767, it'll blow
up. Usually when you want a regular expression this big, there is a better
way to do it with multiple statements. See the perlre manpage.
Reversed %s= operator
(W) You wrote your assignment operator backwards. The
= must always comes last, to avoid ambiguity with subsequent unary
operators.
Runaway format
(F) Your format contained the ~~ repeat-until-blank
sequence, but it produced 200 lines at once, and the 200th line looked
exactly like the 199th line. Apparently you didn't arrange for the
arguments to exhaust themselves, either by using ^ instead of @ (for scalar
variables), or by shifting or popping (for array variables). See the perlform manpage.
Scalar value @%s[%s] better written as $%s[%s]
(W) You've used an array slice (indicated by @) to
select a single element of an array. Generally it's better to ask for a
scalar value (indicated by $). The difference is that $foo[&bar] always behaves like a scalar, both when assigning to it and when evaluating
its argument, while @foo[&bar] behaves like a list when you assign to it, and provides a list context to
its subscript, which can do weird things if you're expecting only one
subscript.
On the other hand, if you were actually hoping to treat the array element
as a list, you need to look into how references work, because Perl will not
magically convert between scalars and lists for you. See
the perlref manpage.
Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}
(W) You've used a hash slice (indicated by @) to
select a single element of a hash. Generally it's better to ask for a
scalar value (indicated by $). The difference is that $foo{&bar} always behaves like a scalar, both when assigning to it and when evaluating
its argument, while @foo{&bar} behaves like a list when you assign to it, and provides a list context to
its subscript, which can do weird things if you're expecting only one
subscript.
On the other hand, if you were actually hoping to treat the hash element as
a list, you need to look into how references work, because Perl will not
magically convert between scalars and lists for you. See
the perlref manpage.
Script is not setuid/setgid in suidperl
(F) Oddly, the suidperl program was invoked on a
script with its setuid or setgid bit not set. This doesn't make much sense.
Search pattern not terminated
(F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a
// or m{} construct. Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting
level.
seek() on unopened file
(W) You tried to use the seek function on
a filehandle that was either never opened or has been closed since.
select not implemented
(F) This machine doesn't implement the
select system call.
sem%s not implemented
(F) You don't have System
V semaphore
IPC on your system.
semi-panic: attempt to dup freed string
(S) The internal newSVsv routine was
called to duplicate a scalar that had previously been marked as free.
Semicolon seems to be missing
(W)
A nearby syntax error was probably caused by a missing semicolon, or possibly some other missing operator, such as a comma.
Send on closed socket
(W) The filehandle you're sending to got itself closed
sometime before now. Check your logic flow.
Sequence (?#... not terminated
(F)
A regular expression comment must be terminated by a closing parenthesis. Embedded parentheses aren't allowed. See
the perlre manpage.
Sequence (?%s...) not implemented
(F)
A proposed regular expression extension has the character reserved but has not yet been written. See
the perlre manpage.
Sequence (?%s...) not recognized
(F) You used a regular expression extension that
doesn't make sense. See the perlre manpage.
Server error
Also known as ``500 Server error''.
This is a CGI error, not a Perl error.
You need to make sure your script is executable, is accessible by the user
CGI is running the script under (which is probably not the user account you tested it under), does not rely on any environment variables (like
PATH) from the user it isn't running under, and isn't in a location where the
CGI server can't find it, basically, more or less. Please see the following for more information:
http://www.perl.com/perl/faq/idiots-guide.html
http://www.perl.com/perl/faq/perl-cgi-faq.html
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/www/cgi-faq
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html
http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq.html
setegid() not implemented
(F) You tried to assign to $), and your operating system doesn't support the setegid system
call (or equivalent), or at least Configure didn't think so.
seteuid() not implemented
(F) You tried to assign to $>, and your operating system doesn't support the seteuid system
call (or equivalent), or at least Configure didn't think so.
setrgid() not implemented
(F) You tried to assign to $(, and your operating system doesn't support the setrgid system
call (or equivalent), or at least Configure didn't think so.
setruid() not implemented
(F) You tried to assign to $>, and your operating system doesn't support the setruid
system call (or equivalent), or at least Configure didn't think so.
Setuid/gid script is writable by world
(F) The setuid emulator won't run a script that is
writable by the world, because the world might have written on it already.
shm%s not implemented
(F) You don't have System
V shared memory
IPC on your system.
shutdown() on closed fd
(W) You tried to do a shutdown on a closed socket.
Seems a bit superfluous.
SIG%s handler "%s" not defined
(W) The signal handler named in %SIG
doesn't, in fact, exist. Perhaps you put it into the wrong package?
sort is now a reserved word
(F) An ancient error message that almost nobody ever
runs into anymore. But before sort was a keyword, people sometimes used it
as a filehandle.
Sort subroutine didn't return a numeric value
(F)
A sort comparison routine must return a number. You probably blew it by not using
<=> or cmp, or by not using them correctly. See sort.
Sort subroutine didn't return single value
(F)
A sort comparison subroutine may not return a list value with more or less than one element. See
sort.
Split loop
(P) The split was looping infinitely. (Obviously, a
split shouldn't iterate more times than there are characters of input,
which is what happened.) See split.
Stat on unopened file lt%sgt
(W) You tried to use the stat function
(or an equivalent file test) on a filehandle that was either never opened
or has been closed since.
Statement unlikely to be reached
(W) You did an exec with some statement
after it other than a die. This is almost always an error,
because exec never returns unless there was a failure. You
probably wanted to use system instead, which does return. To
suppress this warning, put the exec in a block by itself.
Stub found while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s'
(P) Overloading resolution over @ISA tree
may be broken by importation stubs. Stubs should never be implicitely
created, but explicit calls to can
may break this.
Subroutine %s redefined
(W) You redefined a subroutine. To suppress this
warning, say
{
local $^W = 0;
eval "sub name { ... }";
}
Substitution loop
(P) The substitution was looping infinitely.
(Obviously, a substitution shouldn't iterate more times than there are
characters of input, which is what happened.) See the discussion of
substitution in
Quote and Quote-like Operators.
Substitution pattern not terminated
(F) The lexer couldn't find the interior delimiter of
a s/// or s{}{} construct. Remember that bracketing delimiters count
nesting level.
Substitution replacement not terminated
(F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a
s/// or s{}{} construct. Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting
level.
substr outside of string
(W) You tried to reference a substr that
pointed outside of a string. That is, the absolute value of the offset was
larger than the length of the string. See substr.
suidperl is no longer needed since %s
(F) Your Perl was compiled with -D
SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW, but a version of the
setuid emulator somehow got run anyway.
syntax error
(F) Probably means you had a syntax error. Common
reasons include:
A keyword is misspelled.
A semicolon is missing.
A comma is missing.
An opening or closing parenthesis is missing.
An opening or closing brace is missing.
A closing quote is missing.
Often there will be another error message associated with the syntax error
giving more information. (Sometimes it helps to turn on -w.) The error message itself often tells you where it was in the line when
it decided to give up. Sometimes the actual error is several tokens before
this, because Perl is good at understanding random input. Occasionally the
line number may be misleading, and once in a blue moon the only way to
figure out what's triggering the error is to call
perl -c repeatedly, chopping away half the program each time to see if the error
went away. Sort of the cybernetic version of 20 questions.
syntax error at line %d: `%s' unexpected
(A) You've accidentally run your script through the
Bourne shell instead of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your
script into Perl yourself.
System V IPC is not implemented on this machine
(F) You tried to do something with a function
beginning with ``sem'', ``shm'', or ``msg''. See semctl, for example.
Syswrite on closed filehandle
(W) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed
sometime before now. Check your logic flow.
tell() on unopened file
(W) You tried to use the tell function on
a filehandle that was either never opened or has been closed since.
Test on unopened file lt%sgt
(W) You tried to invoke a file test operator on a
filehandle that isn't open. Check your logic. See also -X.
That use of $[ is unsupported
(F) Assignment to $[ is now strictly circumscribed, and interpreted as a compiler directive. You
may say only one of
$[ = 0;
$[ = 1;
...
local $[ = 0;
local $[ = 1;
...
This is to prevent the problem of one module changing the array base out
from under another module inadvertently. See $[.
The %s function is unimplemented
The function indicated isn't implemented on this architecture, according to
the probings of Configure.
The crypt() function is unimplemented due to excessive paranoia
(F) Configure couldn't find the crypt function on your machine, probably because your vendor didn't supply it, probably because they think the
U.S. Government thinks it's a secret, or at least that they will continue to pretend that it is. And if you quote me on that,
I will deny it.
The stat preceding -l _ wasn't an lstat
(F) It makes no sense to test the current stat buffer
for symbolic linkhood if the last stat that wrote to the stat buffer
already went past the symlink to get to the real file. Use an actual
filename instead.
times not implemented
(F) Your version of the
C library apparently doesn't do times.
I suspect you're not running on Unix.
Too few args to syscall
(F) There has to be at least one argument to
syscall to specify the system call to call, silly dilly.
Too late for "-T" option
(X) The #! line (or local equivalent) in a Perl script
contains the
-T option, but Perl was not invoked with -T in its argument list. This is an error because, by the time Perl discovers
a -T in a script, it's too late to properly taint everything from the
environment. So Perl gives up.
If the Perl script is being executed as a command using the #! mechanism
(or its local equivalent), this error can usually be fixed by editing the
#! line so that the -T option is a part of Perl's first argument: e.g. change perl -n -T to perl -T -n.
If the Perl script is being executed as perl scriptname, then the
-T option must appear on the command line: perl -T scriptname.
Too many ('s
Too many )'s
(A) You've accidentally run your script through csh instead of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl
yourself.
Too many args to syscall
(F) Perl supports a maximum of only 14 args to
syscall.
Too many arguments for %s
(F) The function requires fewer arguments than you
specified.
trailing \ in regexp
(F) The regular expression ends with an unbackslashed
backslash. Backslash it. See the perlre manpage.
Translation pattern not terminated
(F) The lexer couldn't find the interior delimiter of
a tr/// or tr[][] construct.
Translation replacement not terminated
(F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a
tr/// or tr[][] construct.
truncate not implemented
(F) Your machine doesn't implement a file truncation
mechanism that Configure knows about.
Type of arg %d to %s must be %s (not %s)
(F) This function requires the argument in that
position to be of a certain type. Arrays must be @NAME or @{EXPR}. Hashes must be %NAME or %{EXPR}. No implicit dereferencing is allowed--use the
{EXPR} forms as an explicit dereference. See the perlref manpage.
umask: argument is missing initial 0
(W)
A umask of 222 is incorrect. It should be 0222, because octal literals always start with 0 in Perl, as in
C.
Unable to create sub named "%s"
(F) You attempted to create or access a subroutine
with an illegal name.
Unbalanced context: %d more PUSHes than POPs
(W) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency
in how many execution contexts were entered and left.
Unbalanced saves: %d more saves than restores
(W) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency
in how many values were temporarily localized.
Unbalanced scopes: %d more ENTERs than LEAVEs
(W) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency
in how many blocks were entered and left.
Unbalanced tmps: %d more allocs than frees
(W) The exit code detected an internal inconsistency
in how many mortal scalars were allocated and freed.
Undefined format "%s" called
(F) The format indicated doesn't seem to exist.
Perhaps it's really in another package? See the perlform manpage.
Undefined sort subroutine "%s" called
(F) The sort comparison routine specified doesn't seem
to exist. Perhaps it's in a different package? See sort.
Undefined subroutine &%s called
(F) The subroutine indicated hasn't been defined, or
if it was, it has since been undefined.
Undefined subroutine called
(F) The anonymous subroutine you're trying to call
hasn't been defined, or if it was, it has since been undefined.
Undefined subroutine in sort
(F) The sort comparison routine specified is declared
but doesn't seem to have been defined yet. See sort.
Undefined top format "%s" called
(F) The format indicated doesn't seem to exist.
Perhaps it's really in another package? See the perlform manpage.
unexec of %s into %s failed!
(F) The unexec routine failed for some reason. See your local
FSF representative, who probably put it there in the first place.
Unknown BYTEORDER
(F) There are no byte-swapping functions for a machine
with this byte order.
unmatched () in regexp
(F) Unbackslashed parentheses must always be balanced
in regular expressions. If you're a vi user, the % key is valuable for
finding the matching parenthesis. See the perlre manpage.
Unmatched right bracket
(F) The lexer counted more closing curly brackets
(braces) than opening ones, so you're probably missing an opening bracket.
As a general rule, you'll find the missing one (so to speak) near the place
you were last editing.
unmatched [] in regexp
(F) The brackets around a character class must match.
If you wish to include a closing bracket in a character class, backslash it
or put it first. See the perlre manpage.
Unquoted string "%s" may clash with future reserved word
(W) You used a bare word that might someday be claimed
as a reserved word. It's best to put such a word in quotes, or capitalize
it somehow, or insert an underbar into it. You might also declare it as a
subroutine.
Unrecognized character \%03o ignored
(S)
A garbage character was found in the input, and ignored, in case it's a weird control character on an
EBCDIC machine, or some such.
Unrecognized signal name "%s"
(F) You specified a signal name to the
kill function that was not recognized. Say kill -l in your shell to see the valid signal names on your system.
Unrecognized switch: -%s
(F) You specified an illegal option to Perl. Don't do
that. (If you think you didn't do that, check the #! line to see if it's
supplying the bad switch on your behalf.)
Unsuccessful %s on filename containing newline
(W)
A file operation was attempted on a filename, and that operation failed,
PROBABLY because the filename contained a newline,
PROBABLY because you forgot to chop or chomp it off. See
chop.
Unsupported directory function "%s" called
(F) Your machine doesn't support opendir
and readdir.
Unsupported function %s
(F) This machines doesn't implement the indicated
function, apparently. At least, Configure doesn't think so.
Unsupported socket function "%s" called
(F) Your machine doesn't support the Berkeley socket
mechanism, or at least that's what Configure thought.
Unterminated ltgt operator
(F) The lexer saw a left angle bracket in a place
where it was expecting a term, so it's looking for the corresponding right
angle bracket, and not finding it. Chances are you left some needed
parentheses out earlier in the line, and you really meant a ``less than''.
Use of $# is deprecated
(D) This was an ill-advised attempt to emulate a
poorly defined awk feature. Use an explicit printf or sprintf
instead.
Use of $* is deprecated
(D) This variable magically turned on multi-line
pattern matching, both for you and for any luckless subroutine that you
happen to call. You should use the new //m and //s modifiers now to do that without the dangerous action-at-a-distance effects
of $*.
Use of %s in printf format not supported
(F) You attempted to use a feature of printf that is accessible from only
C. This usually means there's a better way to do it in Perl.
Use of %s is deprecated
(D) The construct indicated is no longer recommended
for use, generally because there's a better way to do it, and also because
the old way has bad side effects.
Use of bare ltlt to mean ltlt"" is deprecated
(D) You are now encouraged to use the explicitly
quoted form if you wish to use a blank line as the terminator of the
here-document.
Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated
(D) It makes a lot of work for the compiler when you
clobber a subroutine's argument list, so it's better if you assign the
results of a split explicitly to an array (or list).
Use of uninitialized value
(W) An undefined value was used as if it were already
defined. It was interpreted as a ``'' or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake.
To suppress this warning assign an initial value to your variables.
Useless use of %s in void context
(W) You did something without a side effect in a context that does nothing with the return value, such as a statement that doesn't return a value from a block, or the left side of a scalar comma operator. Very often this points not to stupidity on your part, but a failure of Perl to parse your program the way you thought it would. For example, you'd get this if you mixed up your
C precedence with Python precedence and said
$one, $two = 1, 2;
when you meant to say
($one, $two) = (1, 2);
Another common error is to use ordinary parentheses to construct a list
reference when you should be using square or curly brackets, for example,
if you say
$array = (1,2);
when you should have said
$array = [1,2];
The square brackets explicitly turn a list value into a scalar value, while
parentheses do not. So when a parenthesized list is evaluated in a scalar
context, the comma is treated like C's comma operator, which throws away
the left argument, which is not what you want. See
the perlref manpage for more on this.
untie attempted while %d inner references still exist
(W)
A copy of the object returned from
tie (or tied) was still valid when untie was called.
Value of %s construct can be "0"; test with defined()
(W) In a conditional expression, you used <
HANDLE>, <*> (glob), or
readdir as a boolean value. Each of these constructs can return a value of ``0'';
that would make the conditional expression false, which is probably not
what you intended. When using these constructs in conditional expressions,
test their values with the defined operator.
Variable "%s" is not imported%s
(F) While ``use strict'' in effect, you referred to a
global variable that you apparently thought was imported from another
module, because something else of the same name (usually a subroutine) is
exported by that module. It usually means you put the wrong funny character
on the front of your variable.
Variable "%s" may be unavailable
(W) An inner (nested) anonymous subroutine is inside a named
subroutine, and outside that is another subroutine; and the anonymous
(innermost) subroutine is referencing a lexical variable defined in the
outermost subroutine. For example:
sub outermost { my $a; sub middle { sub { $a } } }
If the anonymous subroutine is called or referenced (directly or
indirectly) from the outermost subroutine, it will share the variable as
you would expect. But if the anonymous subroutine is called or referenced
when the outermost subroutine is not active, it will see the value of the
shared variable as it was before and during the *first* call to the
outermost subroutine, which is probably not what you want.
In these circumstances, it is usually best to make the middle subroutine
anonymous, using the sub {} syntax. Perl has specific support for shared variables in nested anonymous
subroutines; a named subroutine in between interferes with this feature.
Variable "%s" will not stay shared
(W) An inner (nested) named subroutine is referencing a lexical variable defined in an outer
subroutine.
When the inner subroutine is called, it will probably see the value of the
outer subroutine's variable as it was before and during the *first* call to
the outer subroutine; in this case, after the first call to the outer
subroutine is complete, the inner and outer subroutines will no longer
share a common value for the variable. In other words, the variable will no
longer be shared.
Furthermore, if the outer subroutine is anonymous and references a lexical
variable outside itself, then the outer and inner subroutines will never share the given variable.
This problem can usually be solved by making the inner subroutine
anonymous, using the sub {} syntax. When inner anonymous subs that reference variables in outer
subroutines are called or referenced, they are automatically re-bound to
the current values of such variables.
Variable syntax
(A) You've accidentally run your script through csh instead of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl
yourself.
Warning: something's wrong
(W) You passed warn an empty string (the
equivalent of warn "") or you called it with no args and $_ was empty.
Warning: unable to close filehandle %s properly
(S) The implicit close done by an
open got an error indication on the close. This
usually indicates your file system ran out of disk space.
Warning: Use of "%s" without parentheses is ambiguous
(S) You wrote a unary operator followed by something
that looks like a binary operator that could also have been interpreted as
a term or unary operator. For instance, if you know that the rand function
has a default argument of 1.0, and you write
rand + 5;
you may
THINK you wrote the same thing as
rand() + 5;
but in actual fact, you got
rand(+5);
So put in parentheses to say what you really mean.
Write on closed filehandle
(W) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed
sometime before now. Check your logic flow.
X outside of string
(F) You had a pack template that specified a relative
position before the beginning of the string being unpacked. See pack.
x outside of string
(F) You had a pack template that specified a relative
position after the end of the string being unpacked. See pack.
Xsub "%s" called in sort
(F) The use of an external subroutine as a sort
comparison is not yet supported.
Xsub called in sort
(F) The use of an external subroutine as a sort
comparison is not yet supported.
You can't use -l on a filehandle
(F)
A filehandle represents an opened file, and when you opened the file it already went past any symlink you are presumably trying to look for. Use a filename instead.
YOU HAVEN'T DISABLED SET-ID SCRIPTS IN THE KERNEL YET!
(F) And you probably never will, because you probably don't have the sources to your kernel, and your vendor probably doesn't give a rip about what you want. Your best bet is to use the wrapsuid script in the eg directory to put a setuid
C wrapper around your script.
You need to quote "%s"
(W) You assigned a bareword as a signal handler name. Unfortunately, you already have a subroutine of that name declared, which means that Perl 5 will try to call the subroutine when the assignment is executed, which is probably not what you want. (If it
IS what you want, put an & in front.)
[gs]etsockopt() on closed fd
(W) You tried to get or set a socket option on a
closed socket. Did you forget to check the return value of your
socket call? See getsockopt.
\1 better written as $1
(W) Outside of patterns, backreferences live on as
variables. The use of backslashes is grandfathered on the right-hand side
of a substitution, but stylistically it's better to use the variable form
because other Perl programmers will expect it, and it works better if there
are more than 9 backreferences.
'|' and 'lt' may not both be specified on command line
(F) An error peculiar to
VMS. Perl does its own command line redirection, and found that
STDIN was a pipe, and that you also tried to redirect
STDIN using '
<'. Only one
STDIN stream to a customer, please.
'|' and 'gt' may not both be specified on command line
(F) An error peculiar to
VMS. Perl does its own command line redirection, and thinks you tried to redirect stdout both to a file and into a pipe to another command. You need to choose one or the other, though nothing's stopping you from piping into a program or Perl script which 'splits' output into two streams, such as
open(OUT,">$ARGV[0]") or die "Can't write to $ARGV[0]: $!";
while (<STDIN>) {
print;
print OUT;
}
close OUT;
Got an error from DosAllocMem
(P) An error peculiar to
OS/2. Most probably you're using an obsolete version of Perl, and this should not happen anyway.
Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX
(F) An error peculiar to
OS/2.
PERLLIB_PREFIX should be of the form
prefix1;prefix2
or
prefix1 prefix2
with non-empty prefix1 and prefix2. If prefix1 is indeed a prefix of a builtin library search path, prefix2 is
substituted. The error may appear if components are not found, or are too
long. See perlos2.
PERL_SH_DIR too long
(F) An error peculiar to
OS/2.
PERL_SH_DIR is the directory to find the
sh-shell in. See perlos2.
Process terminated by SIG%s
(W) This is a standard message issued by
OS/2 applications, while *nix applications die in silence. It is considered a feature of the
OS/2 port. One can easily disable this by appropriate sighandlers, see
Signals. See perlos2.