> 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/
