61840 – epic4 (also 5) failed to resolve any irc server

Bug 61840 - epic4 (also 5) failed to resolve any irc server

Summary: epic4 (also 5) failed to resolve any irc server

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Packages in net-irc

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Reported:	2004-08-26 11:30 UTC by Peter 'klimo' Kliment
Modified:	2006-02-09 21:56 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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output of strace (irctrace.irc,24.94 KB, text/plain) 2004-08-26 11:34 UTC, Peter 'klimo' Kliment	Details
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Description Peter 'klimo' Kliment 2004-08-26 11:30:24 UTC

emerge of epic4 (also 5) is done successfully.
after emerge it's impossible to connect to any irc server. it's impossible also to connect from command line by specifiing /server command. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge epic4
2. epic nick irc_server


Actual Results:  
*** I can't find your mailbox.
*** Connecting to port 6667 of server nextra.irc.sk [refnum 0]
Hostname lookup for [nextra.irc.sk:6667] failed: temporary failure (2)
*** Unable to connect to port 6667 of server nextra.irc.sk: [-5] The hostname
does not resolve
*** Sorry, cannot connect.  Use /SERVER to connect to a server


Expected Results:  
connect to irc server

compile variables:
USE="-X -java -qt -alsa -gnome -kde -gtk -svgalib apache2 dba gd gd-external"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="-sandbox"

net-irc/epic4-2.0-r1  -debug -ipv6 +perl +ssl  0

epm -qa | grep perl
libperl-5.8.4
perl-5.8.4
libwww-perl-5.79


but if I disable perl via USE="-perl" emerge epic4, program runs correctly

Comment 1 Peter 'klimo' Kliment 2004-08-26 11:34:25 UTC

Created attachment 38253 [details]
output of strace 

strace -f -o epic nextra.irc.sk

Comment 2 Sven Wegener gentoo-dev

2004-08-31 19:51:10 UTC

Works fine here, both with and without USE=perl. I'm currently not able to reproduce your error.

Comment 3 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2006-02-09 21:56:50 UTC

If you can reproduce on a recent version ( I used epic4-2.2 ) please re-open.  Otherwise it just looks like your box might have had some other issues.