>>>>>> So maybe I *do* need to open a bug report? Where do I do >>>>>> that? >>>>> >>>>> can you try to disable ipv6, then reboot and see if you still >>>>> get the >>>>> error message? >>>> >>>> Sorry, it's a production machine, I'd rather not do that. >>>> I can >>>> make small >>>> changes but a reboot-- Beside, if this is the set of packages >>>> CentOS >>>> gives me when I install something like spamassassin, it seems like >>>> they should work no matter what. But don't get me wrong, I >>>> really >>>> appreciate your suggestion. >>> >>> It is not the CentOS packages causing your issues. I told you already >>> that I have spamassassin running with these packages with no problems: >> >> Although I have the 32-bit packages which could be slightly different, no? >> >> That said, I would tend to think you're correct: >> >>> The issue you are having, based on the error that you posted, is that >>> something else is already providing the subroutine >>> "Net::DNS::Resolver::Base::AF_INET6" when it is trying to be >>> loaded by >>> perl module provided by CentOS (perl-Net-DNS-0.59-3.el5.i386). What we >>> do not know is what ELSE is providing that routine. >> >> It seems like it shouldn't be hard to grep for who the culprit is, but >> what >> do I know - doing this didn't turn up anything I could too easily >> decypher: >> >> cd /usr/lib/perl5 >> grep -rin 'af_inet6' * >> >> I only got 40 lines of output from that so I could post them if needed. >> Grepping exactly for "sub af_inet6" gives me only one result: >> >> 5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/bits/socket.ph:66: eval 'sub AF_INET6 >> () { &PF_INET6;}' unless defined(&AF_INET6); >> >> Are there modules that are placed somewhere other than >> /usr/lib/perl5 that could have the offending code? Or is this >> a fruitless way to track down the problem? >> > > perl-NetAddr-IP-4.044-1.el5.rf <=== I think that is the problem package > > I don't know if that version is required by the repoforge packages ... but > base contains perl-NetAddr-IP-4.027-5.el5_6 > > I would see if I could replace perl-NetAddr-IP-4.044-1.el5.rf from repoforge > with perl-NetAddr-IP-4.027-5.el5_6 from base. rpm -e --nodeps perl-NetAddr-IP vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo -- change all enabled = 1 to enabled = 0 temporarily (seems like yum priorities is going to be a good idea) -- yum install perl-NetAddr-IP /etc/init.d/spamassassin condrestart Stopping spamd: [ OK ] Starting spamd: [ OK ] That did it. Thanks a lot to Nicolas for sharing and thanks very very much to Johnny for the patient help. Is there somewhere at RepoForge I could notify them about this? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos