I have installed Koha version 1.2.3 on Red Linux 8.0. I have installed Date::Manip by downlading the file DateManip-5.40.tar.gz from http://search.cpan.org and installed the module by perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install.

I got plenty of these lines during the make test stage (this is just a sample):

// Start My Sample

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x73, immediately after start byte 0xe

9) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6477.

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x73, immediately after start byte 0xe

9) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6478.

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x6c, immediately after start byte 0xf

a) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6481.

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x73, immediately after start byte 0xe

0) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6484.

Malformed UTF-8 character (1 byte, need 3, after start byte 0xe0) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/

Date/Manip.pm line 6487.

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x78, immediately after start byte 0xf

3) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6488.

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x78, immediately after start byte 0xf

3) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6488.

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x6c, immediately after start byte 0xf

a) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6489.

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x6c, immediately after start byte 0xf

a) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6489.

Malformed UTF-8 character (1 byte, need 3, after start byte 0xe3) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/

Date/Manip.pm line 6497.

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x73, immediately after start byte 0xe

a) at /opt/DateManip-5.40/blib/lib/Date/Manip.pm line 6501.

//End My Sample

Interestingly enough after all these messages the system reports:

All tests successful.

Files=31, Tests=842, 110 wallclock secs (101.07 cusr + 3.02 csys = 104.09 CPU)

I then proceeded with make install and the installation looks successful.

When I try to add a new adult member, this is what I got in my koha-error_log file (found in /var/log/httpd/)

[Mon Feb 24 16:36:11 2003] [error] [client 172.22.23.12] Premature end of script headers: newmembe

r.pl, referer: http://172.22.23.200:8080/cgi-bin/koha/memberentry.pl?type=Add

[Mon Feb 24 16:36:11 2003] [error] [client 172.22.23.12] ERROR: Date::Manip unable to determine Ti

meZone., referer: http://172.22.23.200:8080/cgi-bin/koha/memberentry.pl?type=Add

[Mon Feb 24 16:36:11 2003] [error] [client 172.22.23.12] Date::Manip::Date_TimeZone called

at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Manip.pm line 629, referer: http://172.22.23.200:8080/cgi-b

in/koha/memberentry.pl?type=Add

[Mon Feb 24 16:36:11 2003] [error] [client 172.22.23.12] Date::Manip::Date_Init('DateFormat

=metric') called at /usr/local/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/newmember.pl line 17, referer: http://172.22.

23.200:8080/cgi-bin/koha/memberentry.pl?type=Add

Can anybody help in solving this problem.

Thanks in advance.

A. Rosunee

University of Mauritius