Shibu C Varughese wrote: > > > On 11/14/07, *Tom* <admin at homemachine.net > <mailto:admin at 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 at 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 at 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.