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Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 06:03:47 +0000 (UTC)
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jake writes:
> $ cpan
> There seems to be running another CPAN process (pid 2064).  Contacting...
> Other job not responding. Shall I overwrite the lockfile? (Y/N) [y]
...
> Fetching with Net::FTP:
>   ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I have occasionally seen a corrupt local cpan database cause this kind of error,
and it looks like you had a cpan process not shut down cleanly earlier.  Try
blowing away .cpan/Metadata, or even everything under .cpan.  Also, avoid sharing
your .cpan directory among multiple versions of perl (e.g. ActiveState and
cygwin, or local builds of perl and the stock cygwin perl.)


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