[arch-general] Perl Help?

[Jude DaShiell]

I hadn't installed that many packages with cpan but found most of them 
came from archlinux repositories so reinstalling the packages whether up 
to date or not fixes this particular problem over here.

On Thu, 6 Jul 2017, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:

> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 13:52:33
> From: Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t.joz at gmail.com>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>,
>     Hunter Jozwiak via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org>,
>     Joey Pabalinas <alyptik at protonmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Perl Help?
> 
> On Sat, 2017-06-24 at 11:51 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> What were all packages you reinstalled after deleting
>> /usr/lib/perl5/
>> and /usr/share/perl5/?
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Hunter Jozwiak via arch-general wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 10:20:42
>>> From: Hunter Jozwiak via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org>
>>> To: Joey Pabalinas <alyptik at protonmail.com>,
>>>     General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org
>>>>
>>> Cc: Hunter Jozwiak <hunter.t.joz at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Perl Help?
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 12:38 -0400, Joey Pabalinas via arch-general
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Hunter Jozwiak via arch-general
>>>> <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>>>> I got bit by Perl this morning after I did an update. I got an
>>>>> error
>>>>> about having a handshake error with ListUtil.c, and I don't
>>>>> know
>>>>> how to
>>>>> resolve this error.
>>>>
>>>> If you have a ~/perl5/lib from using CPAN, files using the wrong
>>>> Perl
>>>> version in there may also be causing this error; try:
>>>>
>>>> ?mv ~/perl5/lib{,-bak}?
>>>>
>>>> to see if this is the cause. If this doesn't work, you can easily
>>>> revert
>>>> the change with:
>>>>
>>>> ?mv ~/perl5/lib{-bak,}?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Joey Pabalinas
>>>> <alyptik at protonmail.com>
>>>
>>> I was able to get rid of the problem by deleting /usr/lib/perl5 and
>>> /usr/share/perl5 and reinstalling all packages. I also deleted the
>>> Perl
>>> directory in my home directory, and all things are working nicely.
>>> Hope
>>> this helps someone if they have this problem in the future.
>>>
>>
>>
>
> All the packages on the system.

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