Problem and resolution for problem on FC7 with Perl

[Jason Ede]

This is more for information in case someone else comes across this.



After running yum updates and updating perl to perl-5.8.8-23.fc7 MailScanner would not start.



The first line of the error message is

is only avaliable with the XS version at  /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9



There are loads of errors to do with Zlib, Archive and Message modules.



Eventually the cause was tracked down to a buggy Scalar::Util module (after some googling)



Resolution



wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/Scalar-List-Utils-1.19.tar.gz

tar xzvf Scalar-List-Utils-1.19.tar.gz
cd Scalar-List-Utils-1.19

perl Makefile.PL
make test

make install





Once that was done everything was fine and MailScanner started again and seems to be working fine.



Jason


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