cpanminus install throwing segmentation faults

Question

CentOS 6.6 on VMWare Fusion throws this error:

Fetching
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.7021.tar.gz
... OK Configuring App-cpanminus-1.7021 ... OK
==> Found dependencies: ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Module::Build
--> Working on ExtUtils::MakeMaker Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BI/BINGOS/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.04.tar.gz
... OK Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Command used:

# curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus

Running CentOS 6.6 on XenServer 6.2 throws a slightly different error:

Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MI/MIYAGAWA/App-cpanminus-1.7021.tar.gz ... OK
Configuring App-cpanminus-1.7021 ... OK
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Answer 1

Apparently, this is a bug.

Started encountering segmentation faults with v1.7020 #421

tthayer commented an hour ago

I'm using Centos 6.5 x86-64. The installation script for this started failing and giving segmentation faults when attempting to install any CPAN packages, including --self-upgrade. I'm not well-versed enough in perl to understand why this is happening, but none of the debug information I've see has singled out any one library or system setting. Reverting to the 1.7019 release allows me to install CPAN packages again.

Bug is fixed in version 1.7022

Use cpanm -V to see your version. Since --self-upgrade option also seg faults, you'll need to install again to update.