perl upgrade borks ms

[Scott Silva]

Harondel J. Sibble spake the following on 8/15/2007 4:10 PM:
> Okay, Centos 3.x machine running MS 4.57.6-1
> 
> Yum upgraded Perl from 5.805 to 5.8.5 this morning and things went sideways.
> 
> Restarting MS gives the following
> 
> # /etc/init.d/MailScanner restart
> Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:                                      [FAILED]
>          incoming postfix:                                 [  OK  ]
>          outgoing postfix:                                 [  OK  ]
> Starting MailScanner daemons:
>          incoming postfix:                                 [  OK  ]
>          outgoing postfix:                                 [  OK  ]
>          MailScanner:        is only avaliable with the XS version at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9.
> Compilation failed in require at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Archive/Zip.pm line 24.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Archive/Zip.pm line 24.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm 
> line 48.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/Message.pm line 48.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 79.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 79.
>                                                            [  OK  ]
> 
> 
> Googling got me a few things, one involved a perlinstaller script from CPanel 
> which we don't use. Trying to download and install the package anyways as per 
> here
> http://www.configserver.co.uk/blog/index.php?catid=6&results=1&page=5
> <http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/33425-eximstats-
> failed-perl-problem.html>
> 
> I tried reinstalling the modules in question, but both 
> 
> install Compress::Zlib
> install Bundle::CPAN
> 
> fail with a lot of the following errors
> 
> /02_methods............ok
> t/03_file...............Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or 
> string at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/Scalar/Util.pm 
> line 30.
> 
> Also tried rerunning the install script for the current version of MS and 
> then installing the newly recreated rpm, no joy. This was one of the 
> suggestions in the list logs, but sadly it didn't help.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to fix this quickly?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
Did the perl upgrade leave you with 2 perls installed?
MailScanner really hates that.


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