"Select your continent" loop with Cpanel update

[ChrisB2]

I am getting nightly emails of the Cpanel update process from my server, however it has started to trip up due to a constant loop asking for the nearest continent to access CPAN mirrors for updates:

...
First, pick a nearby continent and country (you can pick several of
each, separated by spaces, or none if you just want to keep your
existing selections). Then, you will be presented with a list of URLs
of CPAN mirrors in the countries you selected, along with previously
selected URLs. Select some of those URLs, or just keep the old list.
Finally, you will be prompted for any extra URLs -- file:, ftp:, or
http: -- that host a CPAN mirror.

(1) Africa
(2) Asia
(3) Central America
(4) Europe
(5) North America
(6) Oceania
(7) South America
Select your continent (or several nearby continents) []

The process loops displaying the 1-7 selections above until the email gets to 100K in size and then it sends the message to me with subject "Mail failure - message too big", and it would appear the update process stops there.

Can someone please describe how to complete a Cpanel update without this endless loop occurring? I've tried to update via SSH command too, only the same loop occurs.

Can it not just default to something sensible if no option 1-7 is specified, rather than loop?

Thanks for any help.

Chris

[xidica]

I'd be willing to bet you're running a version of Perl which is older than 5.8.7, and updating will fix it.

If perl -v returns version 5.8.7, then manually jumping into the CPAN shell should prompt you to configure CPAN, which is not a big deal :

perl -MCPAN -e shell

Configuration is pretty much straight forward from there(hit enter a bunch of times, answer continents, country, and mirrors with numbers).

If however, perl -v returns a version less than 5.8.7 :

cd /root (or another directory with around 120MB of free space)
wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/perl587installer.tar.gz
tar -xvzf perl587installer.tar.gz
cd perl587installer/
./install

After this completes(it will take some time depending on your system) :

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/checkperlmodules
/scripts/upcp

Let me know if that doesn't work for ya.

[chirpy]

You should also check that you don't have any realperinstaller processes looping on the server beforehand.

It's also a good idea to remove the /home/.cpan/ directory before upgrading the version of perl otherwise the module installation post install can get messed up.

[ladydi711]

Thank you Chirpy!

I have been having this problem for some time and havn't had time to fix it (although I find time to kill realperlinstaller nearly every morning).

Anyway, removing the /home/.cpan directory seemed to finally be the ticket.

Thanks again!