This bug doesn't occur anymore on my Fedora 23 installation since a few days - maybe a Perl update did fix the issue?! Cheers, Roman --- Current output of perl -V: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 22 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=4.3.5-300.fc23.x86_64, archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi uname='linux buildvm-19.phx2.fedoraproject.org 4.3.5-300.fc23.x86_64 #1 smp mon feb 1 03:18:41 utc 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux ' config_args='-des -Doptimize=none -Dccflags=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -Dldflags=-Wl,-z,relro -Dccdlflags=-Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,-z,relro -Dlddlflags=-shared -Wl,-z,relro -Dshrpdir=/usr/lib64 -DDEBUGGING=-g -Dversion=5.22.1 -Dmyhostname=localhost -Dperladmin=root@localhost -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_by=Red Hat, Inc. -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl5 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib64/perl5 -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl -Darchlib=/usr/lib64/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl -Darchname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi -Dlibpth=/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64 -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Dusedtrace=/usr/bin/dtrace -Duselargefiles -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Ui_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm -Duseperlio -Dinstallusrbinperl=n -Ubincompat5005 -Uversiononly -Dpager=/usr/bin/less -isr -Dd_gethostent_r_proto -Ud_endhostent_r_proto -Ud_sethostent_r_proto -Ud_endprotoent_r_proto -Ud_setprotoent_r_proto -Ud_endservent_r_proto -Ud_setservent_r_proto -Dscriptdir=/usr/bin -Dusesitecustomize' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize=' -g', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='5.3.1 20151207 (Red Hat 5.3.1-2)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678, doublekind=3 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16, longdblkind=3 ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='gcc', ldflags ='-Wl,-z,relro -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib64 /lib64 /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib/../lib64 /usr/lib/../lib64 /lib libs=-lpthread -lresolv -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc -lgdbm_compat perllibs=-lpthread -lresolv -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc libc=libc-2.22.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so gnulibc_version='2.22' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,-z,relro ' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -Wl,-z,relro -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector-strong' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: HAS_TIMES MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP PERL_NEW_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE_TIME USE_PERLIO USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API USE_SITECUSTOMIZE Locally applied patches: Fedora Patch1: Removes date check, Fedora/RHEL specific Fedora Patch3: support for libdir64 Fedora Patch4: use libresolv instead of libbind Fedora Patch5: USE_MM_LD_RUN_PATH Fedora Patch6: Skip hostname tests, due to builders not being network capable Fedora Patch7: Dont run one io test due to random builder failures Fedora Patch15: Define SONAME for libperl.so Fedora Patch16: Install libperl.so to -Dshrpdir value Fedora Patch22: Document Math::BigInt::CalcEmu requires Math::BigInt (CPAN RT#85015) Fedora Patch26: Make *DBM_File desctructors thread-safe (RT#61912) Fedora Patch27: Make PadlistNAMES() lvalue again (CPAN RT#101063) Fedora Patch28: Make magic vtable writable as a work-around for Coro (CPAN RT#101063) Fedora Patch29: Fix CVE-2016-2381 (ambiguous environment variables handling) Fedora Patch200: Link XS modules to libperl.so with EU::CBuilder on Linux Fedora Patch201: Link XS modules to libperl.so with EU::MM on Linux Built under linux Compiled at Mar 2 2016 13:27:57 @INC: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5