Re: Strawberry Perl dies on Vista after August 2012 Windows Update

On 20.8.2012 15:21, Andrew Murphy (home) wrote:
> Hi
>
> Have Strawberry Perl 5.16 with Windows Vista – all worked fine.
>
> 1)
>
> Applied August Microsoft Security patches from Windows Update
>
> Perl wouldn’t run.
>
> 2)
>
> Googled – no mention of it.
>
> 3)
>
> Uninstalled Stawberry Perl, and removed C:\strawberry
>
> Installed latest version 5.16.1
>
> Rebooted,
>
> Perl still wouldn’t run.
>
> 4)
>
> Went into Windows update, and backed out the security updates
>
> Rebooted,
>
> Perl now works fine (well, except for all the CPAN modules I have to re-install)
>
> (Sorry, if were Unix, I could run truss to find out what the problem was, but on Windows, I don’t know where to start....)
>
> So it looks like something in the Windows Updates is causing a problem with Perl
>
> Andrew

Unfortunately I do not have any Win Vista available for testing, however on 
my Win7 box with latest updates both 32/64bit 5.16.1.1 work fine.

Are you trying to use 32 or 64 bit strawberry perl?

Are you running any antivirus sw?

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kmx