Bakkiaraj, Thank you for the post. That saved me a lot of time. How did you figure out that this problem:

 Database was generated on Mon, 09 Apr 2012 
17:10:35 GMT
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Undefined subroutine &IO::Uncompress::Base::readonly called at /usr/li
+b/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/IO/Uncompress/Base.pm line 1075.
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was caused by a bad Scalar::Util module ?