Current blead has the "V" command broken. % /home/src/perl/repoperls/installed-perls /perl/p*/perl-5*@30481/bin/perl -de0 Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.29 Editor support available. Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help. main::(-e:1): 0 DB<1> V $/ = ' ' FileHandle(stderr) => fileno(2) [...] Can't locate object method "FIRSTKEY" via package "re::Tie::Hash::NamedCapture" at /home/src/perl/repoperls/installed-perls/perl/plYvZEs/perl-5.8.0@30481/lib/5.9.5/dumpvar.pl line 380. ...propagated at /home/src/perl/repoperls/installed-perls/perl/plYvZEs/perl-5.8.0@30481/lib/5.9.5/perl5db.pl line 2433. at /home/src/perl/repoperls/installed-perls/perl/plYvZEs/perl-5.8.0@30481/lib/5.9.5/perl5db.pl line 2433 DB::DB called at -e line 1 Debugged program terminated. Use q to quit or R to restart, use o inhibit_exit to avoid stopping after program termination, h q, h R or h o to get additional info. DB<1> The first solution that came to my mind was to load the missing module on demand. There are certainly many more solutions to this problem. --- /home/src/perl/repoperls/installed-perls/perl/plYvZEs/perl-5.8.0@30481/lib/5.9.5/perl5db.pl 2007-03-06 01:33:27.000000000 +0100 +++ perl5db.pl 2007-03-06 02:54:38.000000000 +0100 @@ -2416,8 +2416,9 @@ local $doret = -2; # must detect sigpipe failures - not catching - # then will cause the debugger to die. + # them will cause the debugger to die. eval { + require re::Tie::Hash::NamedCapture; &main::dumpvar( $packname, defined $option{dumpDepth} -- andreasThread Next