Bug 104718 – mtr failed to bind to interface

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Claudiu Gafton 2005-09-03 07:06:24 UTC]

When I start mtr with --address option I receive the messege:

mtr: failed to bind to interface: Socket operation on non-socket

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge net-analyzer/mtr
2. mtr --address "one of my addresses on rotuer" "other ip address"
3. I received the error :


Actual Results:  
mtr: failed to bind to interface: Socket operation on non-socket

Expected Results:  
The software should start trace with the source address specified after "--
address" option !

[Comment 1 Claudiu Gafton 2005-09-03 07:09:29 UTC]

Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-
r0, 2.6.12g1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12g1 i686 Pentium III (Katmai)
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) 
[disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/
config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.lug.ro/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.ro.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 alsa crypt eds fortran gd gdbm gif gstreamer jpeg libwww mmx mp3 mysql 
ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oss pam perl png python readline slang snmp spell 
sse ssl tcpd truetype vorbis xml2 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 2 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) 2005-09-03 09:07:08 UTC]

I can confirm the problem using --address. If --address is not specified, it
works ok.

[Comment 3 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) 2005-09-03 09:26:53 UTC]

Added a patch from Debian to 0.69-r1, it fixed the problem for me.
Thanks for reporting!