| Subject: | cpan incorrectly claims "Client not fully configured"... readme command almost unusable |
I don't know when it happened, but now, my CPAN gives me a confusing and
wrong error message when it cannot find a file.
As an example, I often use the readme command, and many modules do not
provide a readme file, so the file isn't found on the cpan mirror.
Older versions gave me a single error line for each such readme, but
current cpan gives me several screenfuls and then claims:
Client not fully configured, please proceed with configuring.
[...]
You have not configured a urllist and do not allow connections to the
This is untrue, the urllist is configured correctly and contains a
working mirror. This problem at least makes the readme command almost
useless to me.
Here is a full session illustrating the problem:
cpan[2]> readme Net::OpenID::Consumer
Running readme for module 'Net::OpenID::Consumer'
Fetching with LWP:
http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme
Fetching with LWP:
http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme.gz
Trying with "/usr/bin/curl -L -f -s -S --netrc-optional -U ":" -x
"http://10.0.0.5:3128/"" to get
"http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme"
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
Trying with "/usr/bin/curl -L -f -s -S --netrc-optional -U ":" -x
"http://10.0.0.5:3128/"" to get
"http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme.gz"
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404
Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O
/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme.tmp22956"
to get
"http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme"
--2009-11-01 11:28:26--
http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme
Connecting to 10.0.0.5:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2009-11-01 11:28:26 ERROR 404: Not Found.
Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O
/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme.tmp22956"
to get
"http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme.gz"
--2009-11-01 11:28:26--
http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme.gz
Connecting to 10.0.0.5:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2009-11-01 11:28:26 ERROR 404: Not Found.
Trying with "/usr/bin/lynx -source" to get
"http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme"
No success, the file that lynx has downloaded looks like an error message:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Object not found!</title>
<link rev="made" href="mailto:adrian@hs-esslingen.de" />
<style type="text/css"><!--/*--><![CDATA[/*><!--*/
body { color: #000000; background-color: #FFFFFF; }
a:link { color: #0000CC; }
p, address {margin-left: 3em;}
span {font-size: smaller;}
/*]]>*/--></style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Object not found!</h1>
<p>
The requested URL was not found on this server.
If you entered the URL manually please check your
spelling and try again.
</p>
<p>
If you think this is a server error, please contact
the <a href="mailto:adrian@hs-esslingen.de">webmaster</a>.
</p>
<h2>Error 404</h2>
<address>
<a href="/">ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de</a><br />
<span>Sun Nov 1 11:28:27 2009<br />
Apache/2.2.11 (Fedora)</span>
</address>
</body>
</html>
Warning: no success downloading
'/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme.tmp22956'.
Giving up on it. at /opt/perl/lib/perl5/CPAN/FTP.pm line 837
CPAN::FTP::hostdlhard('CPAN::FTP', 'ARRAY(0x7c82410)',
'authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme',
'/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-...',
'HASH(0x72ce840)') called at /opt/perl/lib/perl5/CPAN/FTP.pm line 664
CPAN::FTP::hostdleasy('CPAN::FTP', 'ARRAY(0x133f4b8)',
'authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme',
'/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-...',
'HASH(0x72ce840)') called at /opt/perl/lib/perl5/CPAN/FTP.pm line 515
CPAN::FTP::hostdlxxx('CPAN::FTP', 'dleasy', undef,
'ARRAY(0x133f4b8)',
'authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme',
'/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-...',
'HASH(0x72ce840)') called at /opt/perl/lib/perl5/CPAN/FTP.pm line 442
CPAN::FTP::localize('CPAN::FTP',
'authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-1.03.readme',
'/root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/M/MA/MART/Net-OpenID-Consumer-...')
called at /opt/perl/lib/perl5/CPAN/Distribution.pm line 1262
CPAN::Distribution::readme('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0x6a8bce8)')
called at /opt/perl/lib/perl5/CPAN/Module.pm line 474
eval {...} called at /opt/perl/lib/perl5/CPAN/Module.pm line 473
CPAN::Module::rematein('CPAN::Module=HASH(0x4e2a678)', 'readme')
called at /opt/perl/lib/perl5/CPAN/Module.pm line 490
CPAN::Module::readme('CPAN::Module=HASH(0x4e2a678)') called at
/opt/perl/lib/perl5/CPAN/Shell.pm line 1755
CPAN::Shell::rematein('CPAN::Shell', 'readme',
'Net::OpenID::Consumer') called at /opt/perl/lib/perl5/CPAN/Shell.pm
line 1935
CPAN::Shell::__ANON__('CPAN::Shell', 'Net::OpenID::Consumer')
called at /opt/perl/lib/perl5/CPAN.pm line 375
eval {...} called at /opt/perl/lib/perl5/CPAN.pm line 372
CPAN::shell() called at /opt/bin/cpan line 198
Client not fully configured, please proceed with configuring.
You have not configured a urllist and do not allow connections to the
internet to get a list of mirrors. If you wish to get a list of CPAN
mirrors to pick from, use this command
o conf init connect_to_internet_ok urllist
If you do not wish to get a list of mirrors and would prefer to set
your urllist manually, use just this command instead
o conf init urllist
cpan[3]> o conf
$CPAN::Config options from '/root/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm':
commit [Commit changes to disk]
defaults [Reload defaults from disk]
help [Short help about 'o conf' usage]
init [Interactive setting of all options]
applypatch []
auto_commit [1]
build_cache [10]
build_dir [/root/.cpan/build]
build_dir_reuse [1]
build_requires_install_policy [ask/yes]
bzip2 [/bin/bzip2]
cache_metadata [1]
check_sigs [0]
colorize_debug [yellow on_black]
colorize_output [1]
colorize_print [white on_black]
colorize_warn [bold red on_black]
commandnumber_in_prompt [1]
commands_quote undef
connect_to_internet_ok [0]
cpan_home [/root/.cpan]
curl [/usr/bin/curl]
dontload_hash undef
dontload_list undef
ftp []
ftp_passive [1]
ftp_proxy [http://10.0.0.5:3128/]
ftpstats_period undef
ftpstats_size undef
getcwd [cwd]
gpg [/usr/bin/gpg]
gzip [/bin/gzip]
halt_on_failure [0]
histfile [/root/.cpan/histfile]
histsize [100]
http_proxy [http://10.0.0.5:3128/]
inactivity_timeout [0]
index_expire [1]
inhibit_startup_message [0]
keep_source_where [/root/.cpan/sources]
load_module_verbosity [none]
lynx [/usr/bin/lynx]
make [/usr/bin/make]
make_arg []
make_install_arg [UNINST=1]
make_install_make_command [/usr/bin/make]
makepl_arg []
mbuild_arg []
mbuild_install_arg [--uninst 1]
mbuild_install_build_command [./Build]
mbuildpl_arg []
ncftp []
ncftpget []
no_proxy [127.0.0.1,localhost,cerebro,plan9.de]
pager [less -r]
password undef
patch [/usr/bin/patch]
patches_dir undef
perl5lib_verbosity [v]
prefer_installer [EUMM]
prefs_dir [/root/.cpan/prefs]
prerequisites_policy [follow]
proxy_pass undef
proxy_user []
randomize_urllist undef
scan_cache [atstart]
shell [/bin/bash]
show_unparsable_versions [0]
show_upload_date [1]
show_zero_versions [0]
tar [/bin/tar]
tar_verbosity [v]
term_is_latin [0]
term_ornaments [1]
test_report [1]
trust_test_report_history [0]
unzip [/usr/bin/unzip]
urllist
0 [http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/CPAN/]
use_sqlite [1]
username undef
wait_list
0 [wait://ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de:1404]
wget [/usr/bin/wget]
yaml_load_code [0]
yaml_module [YAML::Syck]
cpan[4]>