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Re: Don't seem to be able to use CPAN after recent Cygwin updates (ma ybe)
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- To: Wardman_Michael at emc dot com
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:36:26 +0200
- Subject: Re: Don't seem to be able to use CPAN after recent Cygwin updates (ma ybe)
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <382C684D2347FA4DADFC2D3EA70268F1010CF1ED@ausy1mx2.corp.emc.com>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit @ cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Hallo Michael,
you wrote:
> I used to be able to use CPAN (only a week or so ago) but now it seems to
> time out. I thought it might be a network / firewall type thing but I can
> use ncftp ok. See below ...
> $ cpan Perl::Tokenizer
> CPAN: Storable loaded ok
> Going to read /home/wardmm/.cpan/Metadata
> Database was generated on Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:45:53 GMT
> Going to read /home/wardmm/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
> Fetching with LWP:
> ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
> LWP failed with code[400] message[FTP return code 000]
[...]
Looks like network problems.
> (and so on --- had to can it)
> (but i can get the file ok ... ?? )
> $ ncftpget
> ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/perl/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
> Who are you?
> You have a user id number of 4012, but no username associated with it.
> 02packages.details.txt.gz: 237.34 kB 3.11
> kB/s
> Does anyone have an idea what is going on here? Or what I could try?
> I'm a long-term cygwin user but I don't really know what's going on
> underneath.
You didn't told me which version of cygwin `uname -svr` and which
version of perl `perl -V` (capital V) you're using now.
Please *attach* also the output of cygcheck -svr to your reply.
Gerrit
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