Re: [CentOS] perl 5.8.5-36.el4_5.2

 > On 11/14/07, *Tom* <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.

tom ...do you have another version of perl already installed in your system...may be that's causing this error.

---

shibu

I installed perl 5.8.8 via cpan into /usr/local/lib earlier today, maybe thats causing the lock but I only did that as a last resort as I was getting this type of error trying to upgrade modules...weird

The most recent version "3.24" of the module "Text::ParseWords" is part of the perl-5.8.8 distribution. To install that, you need to run force install Text::ParseWords --or-- install N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.8.tar.gz

not sure how to remove that either.

Oh centos 4.5