CPAN dies like this:
mrsparkle ellem /var/log $ sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
Password:
There seems to be running another CPAN process (pid 542). Contacting...
Other job not responding. Shall I overwrite the lockfile? (Y/N) [y]
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.61)
ReadLine support available (try 'install Bundle::CPAN')
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
LWP not available
Segmentation fault
mrsparkle ellem /var/log $
Here's an entry from my /Users/ellem/Library/Logs/perl.crash.log
Does this help? (It isn't helping me much....)
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Date/Time: 2002-07-31 01:00:38 -0400
OS Version: 10.1.5 (Build 5S66)
Host: localhost
Command: perl
PID: 542
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x0000000c
Thread 0 Crashed:
#0 0x0016b964 in Perl_sv_setiv
#1 0x0017f594 in Perl_pp_i_add
#2 0x00160948 in Perl_runops_standard
#3 0x0010cdc4 in S_call_body
#4 0x0010ca74 in Perl_call_sv
#5 0x001107e8 in S_call_list_body
#6 0x0011036c in Perl_call_list
#7 0x0013b6ac in Perl_newATTRSUB
#8 0x001377cc in Perl_utilize
#9 0x0012ed84 in Perl_yyparse
#10 0x00192b48 in S_doeval
#11 0x0019432c in Perl_pp_require
#12 0x00160948 in Perl_runops_standard
#13 0x0010c10c in S_run_body
#14 0x0010bd30 in perl_run
#15 0x00001a24 in main
#16 0x000018b8 in _start
#17 0x000016e8 in start
PPC Thread State:
srr0: 0x0016b964 srr1: 0x0200f030 vrsave: 0x00000000
xer: 0x0000001c lr: 0x0016b820 ctr: 0x0016b80c mq: 0x00000000
r0: 0x01013930 r1: 0xbfffea70 r2: 0x00779080 r3: 0x001e972c
r4: 0x000000fc r5: 0x001eba08 r6: 0x001eba14 r7: 0x001e9744
r8: 0x001ef1fc r9: 0x001eb4c8 r10: 0x01010201 r11: 0x00000000
r12: 0x0016b80c r13: 0x001e9744 r14: 0x001eba08 r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x000548fc r18: 0x000001c3 r19: 0x00000000
r20: 0x00000000 r21: 0x0072dcf0 r22: 0x0072de00 r23: 0x0072dcf0
r24: 0x0071d2a0 r25: 0x42044442 r26: 0x001ebb68 r27: 0x001eba0c
r28: 0x00000064 r29: 0x000000fc r30: 0x001e972c r31: 0x0016b820
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Lou Moran
http://ellem.dyn.dhs.org:5281/resume/lmoran2002.html