modperl2 + apache2.2 unable to restart

[Foo JH <suppressed>]

Hi all,

I was hoping to migrate my apps to the apache2.2 platform. The apps are 
fine, except that I notice now it's not possible to restart the app - 
the message 'The requested operation has failed!' pops up.

I am running mp2 + libapreq2 + apache2.2 + perl 5.8.8

Can anyone confirm if they have the same problem as well? This needs to 
be rectified because apache on windows will throw a fault and restart 
occasionally.

My test code is as follows:
package AppTest;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Apache2::Request;
use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(OK);
  
sub handler
{
   my $r = shift;
  
   eval {
       $r->content_type('text/plain');
       print 'hello world '.time;
   };
   if ($@)
   {
       $r->content_type('text/plain');
       print "Error:\n\n".$@;
   }

   return Apache2::Const::OK;
}

1;

and my http.conf is as follows:
LoadFile "c:/Perl/bin/perl58.dll
LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so

LoadFile bin/libapreq2.dll
LoadModule apreq_module modules/mod_apreq2.so

Listen 8888

PerlSwitches     "-Ilib"
<Directory />
   Order Allow,Deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>

<Location /servlet/>
   SetHandler perl-script
   PerlResponseHandler AppTest
</Location>