I tried the above workaround. In eclipse-workspace.metadata.plugins\org.epic.debug\dumpvar_epic.pm The change I made was: ... sub _dump_entity { local $\ = undef; ... I am still getting the same error "An error occurred while dumping Perl internal variables; contents of the Variables view may become invalid" I want the variable values to be displayed with their current values as shown in the attached image. What is the permenant solution for this?