CPAN shell fails to start due to segfault.
Issue
- CPAN shell fails to start due to segfault. Get the following error:
# cpan
Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x87bf8e4, Perl interpreter: 0x869f008 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm line 6.
Segmentation fault
- Reinstalling perl and all the other packages relating to perl hasn't resolved the issue.
mod_perl-2.0.4-6.el5.i386 Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-5.8.8-38.el5_8.i386 Tue 26 Aug 2014 07:51:44 AM CDT
perl-BSD-Resource-1.28-1.fc6.1.i386 Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-Compress-Zlib-1.42-1.fc6.i386 Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-DBD-MySQL-3.0007-2.el5.i386 Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-DBI-1.52-2.el5.i386 Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-HTML-Parser-3.55-1.fc6.i386 Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-HTML-Tagset-3.10-2.1.1.noarch Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-IO-Socket-INET6-2.51-2.fc6.noarch Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-libwww-perl-5.805-1.1.1.noarch Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-Socket6-0.19-3.fc6.i386 Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-String-CRC32-1.4-2.fc6.i386 Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-suidperl-5.8.8-38.el5_8.i386 Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-URI-1.35-3.noarch Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
perl-XML-Parser-2.34-6.1.2.2.1.i386 Mon 25 Aug 2014 10:11:02 AM CDT
Environment
- RHEL5.9 (kernel-2.6.18-348.el5PAE)
- perl-5.8.8-38.el5_8
Subscriber exclusive content
A Red Hat subscription provides unlimited access to our knowledgebase of over 48,000 articles and solutions.
Welcome! Check out the Getting Started with Red Hat page for quick tours and guides for common tasks.
