perl and suse 9.3 problem

After a reinstall
suse 9.3 goes ok until i reach this section:
Login to your command line as root and run the following command to start the Perl shell:

perl -MCPAN -e shell

The following Errors are returned.

CPAN.pm panic: Lockfile /root/.cpan/.lock
reports other host www.webnet4u.co.uk and other process 19637.
Cannot proceed.
Any Ideas? please.

shajazzi.

 

Is this your server? www.webnet4u.co.uk
Please post the output of

Code:

ps aux | grep 19637

 

Thanks for the replie falko,
Yes www.webnet4u.co.uk is the name of my server and this is the following output of ps aux | grep 19637

root 7876 0.0 0.0 2880 692 pts/1 R+ 19:35 0:00 grep 19637

shajazzi

 

Can you try

Code:

perl -MCPAN -e shell

again? If it still comes up with an error, run

Code:

rm -f /root/.cpan/.lock