Upgraded 2 Debian Etch servers today (with an "apt-get update" and subsequent "apt-get upgrade") one of which hosts the
I tried an apt-get remove perl (which yielded the debian packages below), but to no avail.
apache-common build-essential defoma dpkg-dev fontconfig-config libalgorithm-c3-perl libapache-mod-perl
libapache2-mod-perl2 libapache2-request-perl libappconfig-perl libarchive-tar-perl libbit-vector-perl
libcache-cache-perl libcache-fastmmap-perl libcarp-assert-more-perl libcarp-assert-perl libcarp-clan-perl
libcatalyst-engine-apache-perl libcatalyst-modules-extra-perl libcatalyst-modules-perl libcatalyst-perl
libcatalyst-view-tt-perl libcgi-simple-perl libclass-accessor-chained-perl libclass-accessor-perl libclass-c3-perl
libclass-container-perl libclass-data-accessor-perl libclass-data-inheritable-perl libclass-dbi-perl
libclass-factory-util-perl libclass-inspector-perl libclass-singleton-perl libclass-throwable-perl
libclass-trigger-perl libclone-perl libcompress-zlib-perl libconfig-any-perl libdata-dump-perl libdata-page-perl
libdata-visitor-perl libdate-calc-perl libdatetime-format-strptime-perl libdatetime-locale-perl libdatetime-perl
libdatetime-timezone-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libdbix-class-perl libdbix-class-schema-loader-perl
libdbix-contextualfetch-perl libdevel-stacktrace-perl libdevel-symdump-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha1-perl
libemail-valid-loose-perl libemail-valid-perl liberror-perl libexception-class-perl libexporter-lite-perl
libextutils-autoinstall-perl libextutils-cbuilder-perl libextutils-parsexs-perl libfile-copy-recursive-perl
libfile-modified-perl libfile-slurp-perl libfontconfig1 libformvalidator-simple-perl libgd-gd2-perl
libgd-securityimage-perl libgd2-xpm libhtml-fillinform-perl libhtml-mason-perl libhtml-parser-perl
libhtml-prototype-perl libhtml-scrubber-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libhtml-widget-perl
libhttp-body-perl libhttp-request-ascgi-perl libhttp-server-simple-perl libima-dbi-perl libio-stringy-perl
libio-zlib-perl libipc-sharelite-perl libjson-perl liblingua-en-inflect-number-perl liblingua-en-inflect-perl
liblist-moreutils-perl liblocale-maketext-lexicon-perl liblocale-maketext-simple-perl liblog-log4perl-perl
libmailtools-perl libmime-types-perl libmodule-build-perl libmodule-find-perl libmodule-install-perl
libmodule-pluggable-fast-perl libmodule-pluggable-perl libmodule-scandeps-perl libnet-daemon-perl libnet-dns-perl
libnet-domain-tld-perl libnet-ip-perl libobject-signature-perl libossp-uuid-perl libpar-dist-perl
libparams-validate-perl libpath-class-perl libplrpc-perl librpc-xml-perl libset-object-perl
libsql-abstract-limit-perl libsql-abstract-perl libsub-uplevel-perl libtemplate-perl libtemplate-plugin-class-perl
libtemplate-timer-perl libtest-exception-perl libtest-longstring-perl libtest-mockobject-perl libtest-use-ok-perl
libtest-www-mechanize-perl libtext-simpletable-perl libtie-ixhash-perl libtimedate-perl libtree-simple-perl
libtree-simple-visitorfactory-perl libuniversal-can-perl libuniversal-exports-perl libuniversal-isa-perl
libuniversal-moniker-perl libuniversal-require-perl liburi-perl libversion-perl libwww-mechanize-perl libwww-perl
libxml-parser-perl libyaml-perl mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server mysql-server-5.0 perl perl-modules perltidy ttf-dejavu
After some googling, I found the following thread on Google Groups:
which talks about a "buggy" arch-check in /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm:
11 "$Config{'archname'}-$Config{'osvers'}" eq
12 "i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi-2.6.24.4" or
13 die "Errno architecture (i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi-2.6.24.4) does not match executable architecture ($Config{'archname'}-$Config{'osvers'})";
So I commented these lines out and perl worked fine again (after having reinstalled Perl and accompanying debian packages of course), so apparently this "bug" hasn't been fixed yet in the current perl-base package.
Also, mod_perl2 had been disabled from the Apache modules-loading after the upgrade of the Apache2 server, so I had to create a new (symbolic) link:
ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/perl.load /etc/apache2/mods-available/perl.load
