[Dxspider-support] Perl problem?

[Saul]

Not sure why I decided to take the plunge and attempt a Perl update all the
way to 5.8.8, bld 820, but I did. Once I found the equivalent ppm modules to
the original ones used in early 5.6.X versions, it seemed to run OK. At
least I wasn't getting any Perl errors while trying to start the cluster.
However, the cluster won't start. Previously after upgrading to DX Spider
1.54 bld 0.172 it was running fine with Perl 5.6.1. Now I get the following
in the log on startup after upgrading to 5.8.8:

1193062593^cluster
1193062593^DXSpider V1.54, build 0.172 started
1193062593^Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Dirk Koopman G1TLH
1193062593^loading prefixes ...
1193062593^US Database not loaded
1193062594^loading band data ...
1193062594^loading user file system ...
1193062594^can't open user file: /spider/data/users (No such file or
directory) [rebuild it from user_asc?] at /spider/perl/DXUser.pm line 145

I saw some previous posts where Dirk suggested problems with user_asc and/or
the various versions of user_asc. I do have a users.V3 that looks like it's
about the right size. In fact all of my user_asc versions seem to be
reasonable in size. I tried running perl user_asc but that didn't help. Not
sure why it's not finding users.V3 unless there's supposed to be a "users."
file there, but certainly prior contents of data don't show any evidence of
that so I presume it's looking for users.V3. Running perl user_asc,
incidentally, doesn't seem to create any new file anywhere unless perl
doesn't bother changing the dates on the file.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Saul, K1BI
K1RK cluster