I'm hoping someone might be able to help me out with a curious installation problem. My first Koha setup was such a success (thanks to all the developers) I have another group that has asked me to do a setup for them. I wanted to do this install on OpenBSD so I gave 2.2.3 a try on OpenBSD 3.7. Other than compiling Yaz from source and a couple additional perl modules to install it's very similar to a RedHat setup. I got it working and then didn't have time to work on it for a while. When I got back to it OpenBSD 3.8 and Koha 2.2.4 was out so I repeated the same procedure and it worked again. I then decided to try and get it working in OpenBSD's Apache chroot jail so I reinstalled the OS and Koha to /var/www/koha. I found that getting Koha to run in the chroot was a difficult problem that didn't fit in my time frame so I decide I would just run Apache with the chroot disabled. I reinstalled OpenBSD again and started doing the production install and ran into the problem I mention below. I have since done a basic install again a number of times using the same procedure as before and also varying the order to see if makes a difference but with no success. The Problem: I run "perl installer.pl" and koha asks if I want to begin. I answer "enter", "Y", or "y". After this prompt it no longer asks for input and it's as if I've hit enter at every prompt and I get this error: Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at Install.pm line 661, <STDIN> line 1. It ends up in an endless loop in the following steps: DATABASE PASSWORD Please provide a good password for the user kohaadmin. IMPORTANT: You can log in using this user and password at any time. Password for database user kohaadmin: Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at Install.pm line 661, <STDIN> line 1. BLANK PASSWORD You must not use a blank password for your MySQL user. Press <ENTER> to try again: My Basic Installation steps (obvious to see I'm using an internal ftp server so you can't copy/paste all lines): Setup Packages/Ports export PKG_PATH=ftp://mirror.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/packages/`machine - a`/:ftp://ftp.ca.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/packages/`machine -a`/ Download, Compile, Install Yaz http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/ cd /tmp && ftp ftp://192.168.0.10/pub/yaz/yaz-2.1.10.tar.gz tar xvzf yaz-2.1.10.tar.gz && cd /tmp/yaz-2.1.10 ./configure make && make install Install Perl Modules DO NOT INSTALL PDF::API2…… requires ver 0.3r77 perl -MCPAN -e 'install "MARC::Record"' perl -MCPAN -e 'install Event' perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::Z3950' perl -MCPAN -e 'install Digest::MD5' perl -MCPAN -e 'install "HTML::Template"' perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Mail::Sendmail"' perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Date::Manip"' perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Convert::ASN1"' perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Compress::Zlib"' perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Net::LDAP"' have to install Net::LDAP twice unless Convert::ASN1 is installed first…don’t know if any of the optional components are needed Install PDF::API2 Ver 0.3r77 cd /tmp && ftp ftp://192.168.0.10/pub/perl/PDF-API2-0.3r77.tar.gz tar xvzf PDF-API2-0.3r77.tar.gz && cd /tmp/PDF-API2-0.3r77 perl Makefile.PL make && make install Install MySQL pkg_add -v mysql-server-4.0.24p1 /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe & /usr/local/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'newpassword' Koha Install cd /tmp && ftp ftp://192.168.0.10/pub/koha/koha-2.2.4.tar.gz tar xvzf koha-2.2.4.tar.gz && cd /tmp/koha-2.2.4 perl installer.pl /var/www/koha/opac /var/www/koha/intranet /var/www/koha/log Setup apache Add following to /var/www/conf/httpd.conf /etc/koha-httpd.conf To run apache without chroot httpd -u Summary: I've had Koha installed and working (without Apache chroot) several times. I've installed both from the console and via ssh and have the same problem. I've installed on two different computers. I get the error: Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at Install.pm line 661, <STDIN> line 1. Any help appreciated. Thanks!