Bug 26882

Summary:	net-misc/netkit-talk doesn't work. talkd does not start.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Charlton Harrison <charlton>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Charlton Harrison 2003-08-18 13:29:46 UTC

After emerging net-misc/netkit-talk and rebooting,  talk still doesn't work. 
The problem is that talkd doesn't start (from the command line nor inetd).  Once
talkd is started it exits immediately without a message (and is not running in
the background).
It turns out after playing with the code a little I found out that it's not able
to grab a socket for some reason (it exits immediately after the main loop). 
There is an error message,  but it never get's displayed probably because in the
talkd code there is no flush() or even a "\n" after the error message.
talk is a pretty basic utility that really should be fixed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge net-misc/netkit-talk
2. try to get it to work... (just try!)  :-)
This problem is reproducible on all my gentoo machines.



FWIW...

bach *ROOT* /root [72]>emerge info
Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.0-test3 i686 Pentium III (Katmai)
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/scratch/tmp/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="apm foomaticdb mad gtkhtml berkdb tetex bonobo guile postgres esd x86 oss
3dnow alsa arts avi crypt cups dga dvd encode gdbm gif gpm gtk imlib java jpeg
kde gnome libg++ libwww mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis
opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell
ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype X xml2 xmms xv zlib"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

Comment 1 Charlton Harrison 2003-08-18 13:30:45 UTC

This also happened back when I was running the gentoo-sources 2.4.20 kernel.

Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-08-24 06:26:53 UTC

use xinetd

udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:518             0.0.0.0:*