Let me apologize, I sent this message to David only by accident earlier in this discussion because gmail's new response bullshit. I hope to not make that mistake again the future. :)
The smoker is an opensuse 12.2 clean install in virtualbox. It only has Perl v5.16.0 installed and I checked and there is no install of perlbrew on the virtual image. I try to make each smoker environment as vanilla as possible from the beginning.