Same scenario I experienced after installing over PDK5.
Here's what worked for me:

Uninstall the failed 6beta. Reboot.
Uninstall previous licensed version. Reboot.
Install 6beta.

It took a little while to get that the rebooting is important....

 - Lynn.



-----Original Message-----
From: pdk-beta-bounces@[...].com
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Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 6:06 PM
To: pdk-beta@[...].com
Subject: [PDK-Beta] Unable to load debugger


Hi All, 
I'm struggling to get the PDK 6.0 beta 1 debugger started on WinXP. 
U:\> perl -d test.pl 
Failed to start the ActiveState Perl Debugger. 
Please ensure that the ActiveState Perl Debugger is properly installed and
try again. 
Ive tried : 
1) Reinstalling the application (PDK-6.0.0.114191.msi located on my D:
drive); 
2) Restarting the PDKDEBUG service; 
3) Checking the PATH to ensure it includes c:\Program Files\ActiveState Perl
Dev Kit 6.0 Beta 1\bin 
4) Changing the PDKDEBUG debug service to use my domain\user account 
... but it didn't help. 
PerlApp does appear work so presumably it's not my license key at fault.
Any suggestions ? 


Alistair 
PS The documentation has a typo. You don't need to repeat the text pdkdebug
in "net stop pdkdebug pdkdebug" 
__DATA__ 
Here's my setup: 
U:\> ver 
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] 
U:\> path 
PATH=C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;d:\perl\bin\;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;d:\ether
eal;c:\bats;C:\MinGW\bin 
;c:\Program Files\ActiveState Perl Dev Kit 6.0 Beta 1\bin 
U:\> perl -v 
This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread 
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) 
Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall 
Binary build 806 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.com 
Built 00:45:44 Mar 31 2003 


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