CPAN module getting Killed

moxliukas has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hello, monks!

I have a Slackware 8.0 server with perl 5.8.0 and I am unable to use CPAN module, as it gets killed in the process.

I really have no idea what is happening. I am using it while being root. Here is a log of things:

root@mfondas:~# perl -MCPAN -e "install 'DBI'"
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
  Database was generated on Wed, 20 Nov 2002 02:24:06 GMT
CPAN: HTTP::Date loaded ok
Killed
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Can anyone provide any pointers to what is happening? And how can I solve this problem? If i download modules first and do perl Makefile.PL && make && make install it works OK. It is only CPAN module that I am having problems with.

Thank you in advance

PS. Oh, I have tried to upgrade my CPAN module (it is now version 1.63) but the problem still remains

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Re: CPAN module getting Killed by RMGir (Prior) on Nov 20, 2002 at 13:12 UTC
Wierd... I don't have 5.8.0 installed here, but the word "Killed" doesn't show up anywhere in my installed modules for 5.6.1. I can think of 2 things you can try. First, try running that with the -d option to invoke the perl debugger; maybe the debugger will catch whatever's doing the "Kill" and let you get a stack trace. Second, type perldoc -l CPAN, and note down the directory where CPAN is installed. Then do (assuming /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 is that directory): `find /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 \| xargs grep -w Killed` [download] and see if you can find out if the "Killed" is from a module... Yes, I know I could have used File::Find to do that, but for some things, find/xargs is just simpler. -- Mike (Edit: I downloaded the 5.8.0 source tree. The word /killed/i does not appear anywhere in the tree, at least, not where it would print out like that...)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: CPAN module getting Killed by moxliukas (Curate) on Nov 20, 2002 at 13:31 UTC
I think that it is not the part of CPAN itself, but rather the OS sends the SIGKILL. Now I wonder why it does that.	[reply]
Re: CPAN module getting Killed by mikeirw (Pilgrim) on Nov 20, 2002 at 14:06 UTC
I've seen this problem before. In my case, it had to do with resource limits. CPAN takes a lot more resources than does a `perl Makefile.PL && make && make install`. If this is your box, then you may want to take a look to see if you've unknowingly set any restrictive limits on processes. If this is someone else's machine, you should probably ask the admin or tech support.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: CPAN module getting Killed by moxliukas (Curate) on Nov 21, 2002 at 10:39 UTC
I would like to say thank you for everyone who has helped me to solve this problem. It was indeed a problem with an operating system: swap was misbehaving, so doing `swapoff && mkswap /dev/hda2 && swapon /dev/hda2` solved it all. Thank you again for your help. Petras "happily-compiling-CPAN-modules" Kudaras	[reply] [d/l]


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