(ERROR): Core cpanel-perl modules have been found to be corrupt. Attempting to correct this.

Symptoms

When running /scripts/check_cpanel_pkgs, the following error is encountered:

(ERROR): Core cpanel-perl modules have been found to be corrupt. Attempting to correct this.

Description

This issues occur when Perl modules appear to be corrupt.

Please note, the cPanel & WHM software depends on a functional Perl installation on the server. If the Perl installation has an issue, it will cause all kinds of different errors as some tasks will not complete. If you see any errors that mention Perl on your cPanel installation, we would recommend using the following scripts to help correct it.

Workaround

You can run the following script to try and repair perl:

/scripts/fix-cpanel-perl

If no issues are found, there should be no output. Otherwisse, the perl packages will be corrected. Once completed, it is recommend that you also run the following command:

/scripts/check_cpanel_pkgs --fix