Althaugh Im not subscribed to this list I was wanted to add to this thread that I had the exact same problem (t\general....ok 9/17Can't call method "prepare" ) on a Linux machine (x86 RedHat 6.1) running Oracle 8i, as well as on an installation that had Oracle 9i Server (on Solaris) and the DBI clients on a RedHat 7.3 (DBD::Oracle 1.12 compiled against Oracle 9i libraries).
Since I had a previous installation of DBI running against Oracle 8i, I checked the DBI version there (a 1.21), and went on downgrading to this DBI 1.21 on my current setups. Afther that, "test problems" just disappeared. Actually I noticed that DBI 1.28 runs all the tests smoothly (but as soon as DBI is 1.29 the problems comes back). While testing I noticed that running one single 'selectall_arrayref' works fine, but as soon as I have two such queries in a row, then the second one fails with "Can't call method prepare ...". Regards, St�phane
