Bug 60074 – Gnocatan server cannot create socket

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Hal Eisen 2004-08-11 11:14:04 UTC]

It doesn't matter what user I run this as (including root!), but both gnocatan-server-console and gnocatan-server-gtk produce this error message immediately after starting:

- 11:09:10 *ERROR* Error creating listening socket: Address family not supported by protocol

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etcat -v gnocatan
[ Results for search key           : gnocatan ]
[ Candidate applications found : 1 ]

 Only printing found installed programs.

*  games-board/gnocatan :
        [  I] 0.8.1.30 (0)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.7)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7 i686 Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups dvd
encode esd evo foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java
jbig jfs jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline
reiserfs sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms
xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-08-11 11:32:59 UTC]

Do you have IPv6 enabled in your kernel?

[Comment 2 Hal Eisen 2004-08-11 11:41:08 UTC]

No, I don't think I do.  Is IPv6 a requirement for Gnocatan?

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-08-11 12:40:18 UTC]

No.  I was just wondering if it was trying to make an IPv6 socket and failing...

[Comment 4 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2004-08-11 13:06:05 UTC]

I've been running servers just fine since it came out on plain old ipv4.  That "Address family" thing does look suspicious.  But gnocatan doesn't have anything that would enable/disable ipv6 that I can tell.

[Comment 5 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2004-08-11 13:11:18 UTC]

Just an FYI you definitely do _NOT_ need to run as root, and probably should never do so.

[Comment 6 Hal Eisen 2004-08-11 13:32:12 UTC]

And I don't *want* to run it as root -- I was just trying to eliminate possible causes of failure.

I've rebuilt my (2.6.7) kernel with IPv6 turned on, and I'll reboot to see if that helps.

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2004-08-14 23:58:35 UTC]

any luck ?

[Comment 8 Hal Eisen 2004-08-15 18:23:13 UTC]

Yes, having IPv6 made the difference.

[Comment 9 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2011-09-14 20:36:28 UTC]

clean up bug list after bugzilla update