Hi CPAN experts,
I've been using perl and CPAN on my web server for years. My web
hosting provider is a "parental" one who periodically does their own
updates on the various software items. (This may or may not relate to
my problem.)
Today I decided to upgrade the various downloaded perl modules on the
server, being particularly interested in updating SpamAssassin. My
first attempt failed because I forgot to include "sudo" before the
perl command, like this:
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animalhead:~ $ perl -MCPAN -e "shell"
CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.64)
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9102)
ReadLine support enabled
cpan[1]> help
<help output snipped>
cpan[2]> upgrade CPAN.pm
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.16)
Going to read /home/mackenna/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:51:14 GMT
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v2.033)
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9707)
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.62)
Could not open '/home/mackenna/.cpan/FTPstats.yml': Permission
deniedGoing to read /home/mackenna/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Lockfile removed.
Undefined subroutine &Compress::Zlib::gzopen called at /usr/local/lib/
perl5/5.8.8/CPAN/Tarzip.pm line 103.
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The second attempt went like this:
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animalhead:~ $ sudo perl -MCPAN -e "shell"
Password:
CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.64)
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9102)
ReadLine support enabled
cpan[1]> upgrade CPAN.pm
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.16)
Going to read /home/mackenna/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:51:14 GMT
Going to read /home/mackenna/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.004)
Deep recursion on subroutine "Compress::Raw::Zlib::AUTOLOAD" at /usr/
local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-freebsd/Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm line
71.
Out of memory!
Lockfile removed.
animalhead:~
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Since then, any CPAN command, even just "clean", ends up with a
similar "deep recursion / out of memory" error.
How can I bypass this error while minimizing loss of downloaded modules?
Thanks,
Craig MacKenna
