Re: Trying to install a module with CPAN segfaults

What am I doing wrong?

Without wanting to be obnoxious, a number of things. You're not telling us:

What version of Perl? (perl -V (uppercase V)
What version of CPAN.pm (it's printed when it starts up)
What operating system? (uname -a if on Unix)
Do you have enough free RAM and disk space?
What has changed on your system and with Perl since the last time you successfully installed a module?

You could run CPAN under the debugger and find out whereabouts the segfault is occurring: this should be enough for people to figure out what's going wrong.

perl -MCPAN -d -e 'install Statistics::ChiSquare'
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The above will be enough to get the ball rolling. Use the n command to execute the code step by step and find out where it's failing and report back.

In other words, I have no idea why it would do that. I have had similar experiences with 5.6.0 on Solaris, but that version of Perl was known to be buggy.

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Re: Re: Trying to install a module with CPAN segfaults by Sameet (Beadle) on May 02, 2004 at 19:12 UTC
Hi, I am really sorry for being 'obnoxious', but i will provide the following things 1. My Operating system is RedHat Linux 9.0. 2. My Perl version is 5.8.0, that came with the operating system. 3. My RAM is 512MB 4. My HardDisk is 120GB, of which 40GB is Windows Partition, Remaining is for Linux. The CPAN verstion is `cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.76) ReadLine support enabled` [download] I actually typed the following at the command line `install Statistics::ChiSquare` [download] I hope these answers all the questions Thank you again Sameet	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Trying to install a module with CPAN segfaults by eserte (Deacon) on May 03, 2004 at 15:02 UTC
Is the LANG environment variable set to a UTF-8 locale? Try unsetting LANG then, because there are various problems with the LANG setting and the perls shipped with RedHat 8.0 and 9.0.	[reply]