Shibu C Varughese wrote:
>
>
> On 11/14/07, *Tom* <admin@homemachine.net
> <mailto:admin@homemachine.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     Since upgrading to perl 5.8.5-36.el4_5.2 I have had no end of problems,
>     starting with needing compress::zlib which I got from rpmforge, then I
>     had to reinstall scalar::util to get mailscanner working but now I
>     can't
>     install or upgrade any perl modules.
>     Has anyone else had problems or can someone tell me what I've done wrong
>     please?
>
>     regards
>     tom
>
>
>
> tom ...
>
> try to trouble shoot ...
>
> shell> perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> install DBI
> cpan> install DBD::mysql
>
> what the error message ?
>
> ---
> shibu

Thanks for replying shibu.

[root@tom razor-agents-2.84]# perl -MCPAN -e shell

There seems to be running another CPAN process (pid 23858).  Contacting...
Other job not responding. Shall I overwrite the lockfile? (Y/N) [y] y

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7602)
ReadLine support enabled

cpan> install DBI
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
   Database was generated on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:36:34 GMT
Running install for module DBI
Running make for T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.601.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
perl: symbol lookup error:
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Compress/Raw/Zlib/Zlib.so:
undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr
[root@tom razor-agents-2.84]#

I can't find any other cpan shell running either but I get that msg each
time it exits like this.