nasty problems with CPAN.pm and OpenBSD2.9

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

The machine I was just using was a Pentium133 with 80Megs ram. I was running OpenBSD2.9, which was freshly installed, and Perl V5.6.0 with whatever version of CPAN.pm that ships with it. I was trying to install DBD::CSV, when the badness started:

CPAN.pm: Going to build J/JW/JWIED/Text_CSV_XS-0.22.tar.tgz
Checking if your kit is complete...
looks good
uvm_fault(0xe0481f4c, 0xe000e000, 0, 1) -> 1
kernel: page fault trap, code=0
stopped at         _pmap_copy_page+0x327:cmpl    %esi,0x4(%edx)
ddb>
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the ddb> acted like a shell prompt, but would only respond with command not found to anything I typed. (I tried exit, quit, halt...)

The machine is rebooting now. Can anyone decipher that mess? Is there anything I can do to prevent it? It may have been some sort of hardware error, it is an old computer that once had a soya sauce packet dropped inside it.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Michael
Sorry if the error message has typos, I had to write it down and then retype it.

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Re: nasty problems with CPAN.pm and OpenBSD2.9 by xphase_work (Pilgrim) on Sep 18, 2001 at 01:00 UTC
It appears that you dropped into a debugger after the trap. This seems to be an OS issue, and I would suggest using the OpenBSD supported forums. i.e. IRC #openbsd or #openbsdhelp, the website: http://www.openbsd.org, or the mailing lists(you can get them off the website). Make sure that you search to see if others have had this previously, and if there is a patch available. Good luck! --xPhase	[reply]