Issue after CentOS upgrade to 5.4 using yum/rpm for perl modules

[Edward Prendergast]

Hi,

After having upgraded to CentOS 5.4 I'm seeing the following errors from 
MailScanner:

[root at server8 MailScanner]# MailScanner --version
 is only avaliable with the XS version at 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm line 9.
Compilation failed in require at 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Archive/Zip.pm line 24.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/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 108.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 108.

I tried upgrading to the latest version of MailScanner 
(MailScanner-4.78.17-1 installed from MailScanner-4.78.17-1.rpm.tar.gz's 
install.sh) but this hasn't resolved the issue.

After yum upgrades downgrading perl packages below the minimum version 
requirement for MailScanner my process to fix has usually been:

1) Identify problem packages from MailScanner errors
2) Add these to yum exclude list
3) Reinstall MailScanner stable and allow it to force the packages back 
up to the right version

As shown above this approach hasn't worked this time.

Thanks,
Edward

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