Interesting! I decided to try installing Term::ReadLine::Gnu just to see if it would change anything and after installation the warning when starting CPAN is gone!

Thinking back (been a while that this has been happening) I think the same thing occured on this machine. I didn't really pay attention to the original startup of CPAN after upgrading to rh9 but I do remember getting the notification on a new version of CPAN.pm being available and then the warning after reloading it.

Still having problems installing/updating the same group of modules but do seem to be getting a bit closer to causes and effects anyway.

Thanks for the info!

Daeve