Dear All,

Greetings. I use strawberry perl on windows 7. I use command "perl-MCPAN -e shell" to install perl modules from CPAN. When I was installing Padre (Perl IDE) by issuing command 

cpan> install Padre

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and the process was in the middle then there was power trip due to which my PC rebooted. Now whenever I try to load perl shell (perl -MCPAN -e shell) on perl cmmand line (DOS) it gives following fatal error: 
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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\>perl -MCPAN -e shell
Argument "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0" isn't numeric 
+in numeric
 eq (==) at C:/strawberry/perl/lib/CPAN.pm line 728.

There seems to be running another CPAN process (pid                   
+    ).  Co
ntacting...
Can't kill a non-numeric process ID at C:/strawberry/perl/lib/CPAN.pm 
+line 733.

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I rebooted my PC but in vain. Please suggest problem resolution and throw some pointers.

Regards,

perl_omens

In reply to Unable to load Strawberry perl shell on windows 7 by perl_omens

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