[Ssh-sftp-perl-users] scp_get error, "stat is not of type HVptr", line 317 in Net/SSH2.pm

[Len, C. <CL...@sj...>]

Hello,

 

I installed Net::SSH2 v0.28 on top of a i386-Linux perl v5.6.1
distribution, with supporting libgcrypt-1.1.12 and libssh2-1.2.1 C
libraries. "make test" passed (albeit 65/75 skipped for "various
reasons") at install time. (Test-Simple-0.94, Test-Harness-2.64, and
ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.4.2 were also installed for purposes of ensuring
successful "make test" run)

During use, login attempts via SSH2 into my remote server are
successful, as are directory listings. But I get this error when
attempting to create the IO object, for a SCP get file transfer: "stat
is not of type HVPtr at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/Net/SSH2.pm line 317".


I have tried updating IO (containing ::File) to latest v1.2.5
(suspecting old version incompatibility), it did not help. 

My test code is below my signature, based on an excerpt taken from
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=569657

Any help would be appreciated!

 

Thank you,

Chris Len

St. Jude Medical <http://www.sjm.com/> 

cl...@sj... <mailto:cl...@sj...>  

 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;

use strict;

use Net::SSH2;

use IO::File;

 

my $ssh2 = Net::SSH2->new();

$ssh2->connect('myhost.mydomain') or die "Unable to connect Host $@ \n";

$ssh2->auth_password('myuser','mypass') or die "Unable to login $@ \n";

print("Logged in successfully, attempting file listing\n");

 

my $sftp = $ssh2->sftp();

my $dir1 = '/tmp/';

my $dh = $sftp->opendir($dir1);

while(my $item = $dh->read) { 

      print $item->{'name'},"\n";

}

print("List successful, attempting file download \n");

 

my $remote1 = '/tmp/big100mb.file';

#FAILURE AT BELOW LINE

my $local1 = IO::File->new("> /tmp/download.file"); 

$ssh2->scp_get($remote1, $local1);

 

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