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Posted on 2008-10-22 08:37:06-07 by sanderb
CPAN ends with
Each time I (try to) use CPAN it end with "Killed". I'm kind of new with CPAN, so I don't know where to find log-files (there not in /root/.cpan).

Anybody can give me a hint where to start to solve this problem?

Output when running install Bundle::CPAN:
Could not fetch modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Trying to get away with old file: 297530 688 -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 700081 Oct 21 08:57 /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz Database was generated on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:27:49 GMT HTTP::Date not available There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.9301) available! [Current version is v1.7602] You might want to try install Bundle::CPAN reload cpan without quitting the current session. It should be a seamless upgrade while we are running... Killed
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Posted on 2008-10-22 19:21:34-07 by eserte in response to 9103
Re: CPAN ends with
This sounds like a severe problem. Probably you run into memory problems or there was a segmentation fault or so. Maybe you should look at the output of "top" while CPAN.pm is running. Or turn coredumping on and see if there's a core dump after termination.
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Posted on 2008-10-24 09:16:16-07 by sanderb in response to 9106
Re: CPAN ends with
top outputs:
4979 root 20 0 38120 34m 636 R 87.5 28.9 0:21.00 perl
and the system stops responding while cpan is running (I'm working remote so I figured that is normal behaviour)

I've changed the paths in Config.pm to a place with 5Gb free space (can't be to sure) so there is enough free space.

How can I test/see if there is a memory problem?

How can I turn coredumping on?

Is updating CPAN with eq. installpkg an option? (I'm running slackware 12.1)
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Posted on 2008-10-25 08:40:11-07 by eserte in response to 9122
Re: CPAN ends with
38MB does not sound much memory, unless you have an embedded system.
To turn coredumps on, try
ulimit -c unlimited
Regards, Slaven
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