perl upgrade borks ms

[Jim West]

I had run into this problem yesterday.

This appears to be with ZLib 1.42  don't use it.

I had to remove PERL and re-install it.

Upgraded everything BUT the Zlib package.  Re-installed MailScanner and
all was well.

I think I narrowed it down to List::Utils having an XS issue.

- Jim


> 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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