On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Andreas J. Koenig<andreas.koenig.7os6v...@franz.ak.mind.de> wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:06:39 -0400, Asif Iqbal <vad...@gmail.com> said: > > > # cpan IO::Socket::SSL > > CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18) > > Going to read '/var/spool/cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz' > > CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.015) > > CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.68) > > Going to read 1 yaml file from /var/spool/cpan/ > > CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9719) > > Can't call method "tested_ok_but_not_installed" on unblessed reference > > at /usr/share/perl/5.10/CPAN/Index.pm line 180. > > What is in /var/spool/cpan/ ? If it is looks like being left over by > CPAN.pm please send it to me. As a workaround I suggest removing "it" > if possible.
removed the content of /var/spool/cpan and still same error (root)@sys-ubuntu:/var/spool/cpan# rm -rf * (root)@sys-ubuntu:/var/spool/cpan# cd (root)@sys-ubuntu:~# cpan IO::Socket::SSL CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18) CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.819) CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9719) Fetching with LWP: http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.68) Going to read '/var/spool/cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz' Going to read 1 yaml file from /var/spool/cpan/ Can't call method "tested_ok_but_not_installed" on unblessed reference at /usr/share/perl/5.10/CPAN/Index.pm line 180. (root)@sys-ubuntu:~# ls -al /var/spool/cpan/ total 16 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-06-26 10:42 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-06-23 17:56 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 307 2009-06-26 10:42 FTPstats.yml drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-06-26 10:42 sources > > -- > andreas > -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?