Hi Jude! See below for my reply. On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 06:30:28 -0400 (EDT) Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For other distributions of Linux if they haven't yet upgraded to the > version of perl archlinux is now distributing, you will do well to avoid > it like the plague. In all of the years I've used Linux, I never thought > such a day as this would happen with perl. Look for yourselves though. > That system is so embedded in so many parts of Linux I can't very well > remove and do a reinstall and even if I could, I can't guarrantee the > current problems would disappear or get worse. > There's nothing particularly wrong with perl-5.22.0 - it is well tested, of good quality, and works well for most people. Note however that like previous versions, it implies a breakage of the internal XS API, which requires Perl/XS packages to be rebuilt. Looking at your problems: [Astrlog output snipped] > [jude@athame1 ~]$ perldoc perl > /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup > error: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/auto/Encode/Encode.so: undefined symbol: > Perl_xs_apiversion_bootcheck Encode and List::Util are core modules and should have been upgraded with the perl interpreter. Perhaps you installed other versions of them from CPAN which should now be deleted. Please run "perl -V" and let me know which directories in the Perl @INC contain the Encode.pm and List/Util.pm files. > For the not too distant future I'm going to have to return the hard drive > to bare metal status then reinstall the operating system. > That still sounds drastic and unnecessary. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ The Case for File Swapping - http://shlom.in/file-swap “Interesting” has a negative correlation with “successful”. — Anno on Freenode’s #perl Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list