X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <19307.203.13.176.1.1169448313.squirrel@travel.infinitylimited.net> In-Reply-To: References: <55603.203.13.176.1.1166667961.squirrel@travel.infinitylimited.net> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:45:13 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: cygwin 1.5.22 - cpan core dumping on initial From: jake@infinitylimited.net To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com > 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.) The problem seemed to have been a combination of: - spaces in pathnames in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/CPAN/Config.pm - not having the cygwin ftp, ncftp and ncftpget installed - the windows ftp program not working under cygwin - wget's failure to work with ssh-tunneled proxys My solution was to re-install perl, inetutils, then hand-edit Config.pm above to use /usr/bin/ftp etc. This is just for the record. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/