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