Howdy Bros. I went to install a CPAN module on my linux (FC6) system and got an error:
There seems to be running another CPAN process (pid 12651).  Contactin
+g...
Other job not responding.  Shall I overwrite lockfile '/root/.cpan/.lo
+ck'? (y/n)

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I have researched this a little and it seems that bad things like core dumps happen when you answer yes to this question. There is no clear direction on what to do to fix this problem other then reinstalling Perl or ../perl/site/lib. Re-installing is a last resort that would create a lot of work for me and I would dearly love to fix this problem without doing so.

I found this post which says I could try to "hunt down and kill" the CPAN lock file. But I don't want to try anything like that until I'm sure it's not going to hose the whole Perl setup or something. Is this a risky thing to try? Anyone know of another fix?

Thanks...Steve

In reply to CPAN error: There seems to be running another CPAN process by cormanaz

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