Anyone have any other insights? Thanks!
>>> Running CentOS5 with SpamAssassin v3.3.1-2.el5 installed via yum > >>> >>> I remember getting this error a while ago, and it was fixed (don't >>> remember how, but I think just by upgrading), but now it's >>> happening again: >>> >>> Subroutine Net::DNS::Resolver::Base::AF_INET6 redefined at >>> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Exporter.pm line 65. >>> at >>> >> > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Net/DNS/Resolver/Base.pm >>> line 65 >> >> are you still running perl 5.8.8? >> >> (perl -v) > > Yes, "still". I say that because that's the newest Centos 5 > provides. > >> if you have multiple perl sitelibs, you might have a conflict. >> >> cd /usr/lib/perl5. >> >> ls. how many vendor_perl and site_perl's do you have? > > cd /usr/lib/perl5/ > ls > > 5.8.8 site_perl vendor_perl > > I'm not sure what this tells you, but maybe this is helpful: > > locate INET6.pm > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/IO/Socket/INET6.pm > >> or, you could just delete (manually) IO-Socket-INET6 (make a backup first!) >> on freebsd (with perl 5.10.1): >> >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1/man/man3/IO::Socket::INET6.3.gz >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/IO/Socket/INET6.pm >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/mach/auto/IO/Socket/INET6 >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/mach/auto/IO/Socket/INET6/.packlist >> >> on fedora, try: >> >> find /usr/lib/ -name 'INET6*' >> (back them up) > > Same result as above: > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/IO/Socket/INET6.pm > > As I stated in my inquiry, I'd prefer to do my package management > via yum if at all possible. Yum tells me to uninstall this package, > spamassassin depends on it so has to be removed also. So it does > not seem like a good idea to remove it out from under SA > >>> The results I get from Google regarding this are all circa >>> 2008. The only hints I can find seem to suggest to remove >>> perl-IO-Socket-INET6, but trying to do so using yum (I don't >>> want to start using another method of package management) >>> tells me that spamassassin is a dependency and will also be >>> removed - obviously undesirable. >>> >>> Perl is up to date on the machinge. >> >> no its not :-) > > Yes, it is :-) Centos/RHEL 5 seems to maintain 5.8.8 with its own updates or > some such thing. > > Thank you for your help >
