I know know if this is the right place to ask about CPAN problems, but lately I have been having problems doing anything with my CPAN module. No matter what I try it prints out this error: 
Warning: Your /private/var/root/Library/Application Support/.cpan/sour
+ces/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Last-Updated
+ header.
Please check the validity of the index file by comparing it to more
than one CPAN mirror. I'll continue but problems seem likely to
happen.
DONE

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After a while CPAN just crashes with the following error: 
Going to read '/private/var/root/Library/Application Support/.cpan/sou
+rces/modules/03modlist.data.gz'
gzip: /private/var/root/Library/Application.gz: No such file or direct
+ory
gzip: Support/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz: No such file or
+ directory
Terminal does not support GetHistory.
Lockfile removed.
Can't locate object method "data" via package "CPAN::Modulelist" (perh
+aps you forgot to load "CPAN::Modulelist"?) at (eval 90) line 1.
 at /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/CPAN/Index.pm line 518
        CPAN::Index::rd_modlist('CPAN::Index', '/private/var/root/Libr
+ary/Application Support/.cpan/sources/m...') called at /opt/local/li 
+       CPAN::Index::reload('CPAN::Index') called at /opt/local/lib/pe
+rl5/5.8.9/CPAN.pm line 692
        CPAN::all_objects('CPAN=HASH(0x9b3d74)', 'CPAN::Distribution')
+ called at /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/CPAN/Shell.pm line 1046
        CPAN::Shell::failed('CPAN::Shell', 2, 1) called at /opt/local/
+lib/perl5/5.8.9/CPAN.pm line 413
        eval {...} called at /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/CPAN.pm line 4
+13
        CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1b/perl5/5.8.9/CPAN/Index.pm l
+ine 85
        CPAN::Index::reload('CPAN::Index') called at /opt/local/lib/pe
+rl5/5.8.9/CPAN.pm line 692
        CPAN::all_objects('CPAN=HASH(0x9b3d74)', 'CPAN::Distribution')
+ called at /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/CPAN/Shell.pm line 1046
        CPAN::Shell::failed('CPAN::Shell', 2, 1) called at /opt/local/
+lib/perl5/5.8.9/CPAN.pm line 413
        eval {...} called at /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/CPAN.pm line 4
+13
        CPAN::shell() called at -e line 1

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I don't know if this is a bug in CPAN or what I tried to reload the index but that also fails, I just installed CPAN v1.9402

In reply to Problem with my CPAN module by vendion

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