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Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / August 2005Can't Run CPAN
For some reason, when I try to do "sudo cpan", it won't start up, and generates this following message: Terminal does not support AddHistory. CPAN.pm panic: Lockfile /Users/lolajl/.cpan/.lock reports other host TsarskoeSelo.local and other process 20574. Cannot proceed. Looking in Activity Monitor, I don't see process 20574. Tried shutting down and starting my computer up again but this doesn't do the trick. What's causing this?  SignatureLola - mailto:lola@his.com http://www.lolajl.net | Blog at http://www.lolajl.net/blog/ Freedom is not free. I'm in Bowie, MD, USA, halfway between DC and Annapolis. > For some reason, when I try to do "sudo cpan", it won't start up, and > generates this following message: Well . . . I figured it out - removed .lock and all is back to normal. I'd like to know why this happened, though. SignatureLola - mailto:lola@his.com http://www.lolajl.net | Blog at http://www.lolajl.net/blog/ Freedom is not free. I'm in Bowie, MD, USA, halfway between DC and Annapolis. >> For some reason, when I try to do "sudo cpan", it won't start up, and >> generates this following message: > > Well . . . I figured it out - removed .lock and all is back to normal. > I'd like to know why this happened, though. Sounds like CPAN was (previously) started and not closed correctly. The .lock file was so that you don't accidentally run two copies at the same time. The message gives enough information for you to check if CPAN is currently running. So, the expected thing for you to do is to check if CPAN is running, and if it isn't, remove the .lock file and run CPAN. Which you did. ;) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- |
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