Mandriva 2010 and perl 5.10.1
 

I upgraded from 2009.1 to 2010 Thursday by adding the 2010 sorces and removing the 2009.1 ones then running urpmi --auto-update -a and let it run. During this upgrade perl 5.10.1 was installed however it appears that not all modules were installed in the 5.10.1 folders for instance:

/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/AppConfig.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Net/SSLeay.pm

was not installed in the new 5.10.1 folder while some others were, for instance:

/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.1/Authen/SASL.pm

Since I'm having a problem logging into webmin using https://localhost:10000 which results in:

SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

(Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)

I've been advised that the problem is probably the Net::SSLeay module being in the incorrect place.

Any ideas on how to correct the modules that were not installed in the new perl version? I tried installing the Net::SSLeay module and some others again but was informed that they were already installed in 5.10.0. I copied over all the Net::SSLeay files over to the correct place in 5.10.1 howver that hasn't seemed to correct the problem either.

Thanks for any advice/assistance.

Chris

Perl keeps track of the installed modules.
( Using the hidden pack lists may be ? )

Suggest : Use the cpan shell to install the missing files.

# cpan
> cpan install Xxxx::Yyyy

The cpan shell will download and install dependencies
too, and also suggest updates.
.....

I see gross differences between what's installed in 5.10.0 and 5.10.1. For instance in /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0 I have

while in /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1 I have:

and so forth, /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 differs completely from /site_perl/5.10.1 as does /vender_perl. I've been told that 5.10.1 supports 5.10.0 modules also and if I read the output of perl -V I guess that's correct:

So, maybe the issue is all in my head and there is some other reason why I can't use https to log-on to webmin. One other note, I had to change all references to 5.10.0 to 5.10.1 in spamd, sa-update and sa-learn. Now possibly if I'd done a fresh install of SpamAssassin it would have picked up on the change, I don't know.

Chris

I belive there is something definitely wrong with the way Mandriva has installed 5.10.1 as when attempting to install a module suggested by webmin as a test I got what is shown in the pastebin link.

http://pastebin.com/m4b469e56

Mandriva 2010 ....... ref. pastebin file :

The missing headers, EXTERN.h, embed.h etc. etc. are in
the package perl-devel

Please install / reinstall it, if possible.

# urpmi perl-devel perl-CPAN

A lot of perl modules are listed in the package manager,
Add / Remove Software. Or :
# urpmq --fuzzy perl > available-perl.txt
.. will create a text list in /home/'username'/
I get 1,828 lines in the file available-perl.txt .
.....

Thank you, that did the trick as far as failed module installs goes it seems. Though I log in locally to webmin I still can't figure out why when using https://localhost:10000 I still get the

SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

(Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)

error even though I see that some modules were updated ie..Net::SSLeay.

Thanks for the help
Chris

The https issue has been solved. Coming home from the grocery store this morning a light bulb went off. I needed to check the SSL setup in Webmin. Under Webmin Configuration > SSL Encryption > Private key file is the path /etc/ssl/webmin/miniserv.pem. What had happened when I upgraded is that the file name was changed to miniserv.pem.rpmsave. Changing it back to miniserv.pem corrected the problem.