Bug 30865 – glibc 2.3.2 has a bug in in gethostbyaddr_r()

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Andreas Kotowicz 2003-10-10 14:38:31 UTC]

I couldn't send out any emails from evolution anymore. but I got an email from
an ximian guy:

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From: 	Jeffrey Stedfast <[e-mail]>
Subject: 	Re: Re:[Evolution-hackers] evo / ORBit2 oddness...

you are suffering from a glibc 2.3.2 bug in gethostbyaddr_r() - you'll need
to remove all blank lines and comment blocks from /etc/hosts
Jeff
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after I did what he said I can now send out emails without a problem

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.start evolution
2.create mail
3.try to send mail

Actual Results:  
I get a message:
Error while performing operation:
MAIL FROM response error: Command unrecognized: ""

Expected Results:  
send out mail

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-10-10 14:53:51 UTC]

you forgot `emerge info` ... each of the 2.3.2 glibc ebuilds is diff and
it matters very much which one you're using

[Comment 2 Andreas Kotowicz 2003-10-10 15:01:06 UTC]

sorry about that. here you go:Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3,
glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.6.0-test7)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.0-test7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1300MHz
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -funroll-loops -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse
-mmmx -msse -msse2"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/sound/events /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /etc/init.d
/etc/giFT /etc/X11/starthere /etc/X11 /etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS=""
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
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.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod
motif mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png qt quicktime spell xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm
berkdb slang readline svga java sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python imlib
oggvorbis gtk opengl mozilla acpi gtk2 X alsa -apm -kde -arts dvd tcltk mysql
gstreamer esd sse gnome -ldap dvdr cdr tetex truetype"

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-10-13 12:53:10 UTC]

Can you try glibc-2.3.2-r[56] please ?

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2003-10-13 12:59:40 UTC]

*** Bug 31060 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) 2003-10-14 00:14:53 UTC]

I have tried with glibc-2.3.2-r6 and the function gethostbyname() doesn't
work either.

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2003-10-18 02:29:03 UTC]

*** Bug 31395 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 Paul Tötterman 2003-10-18 03:01:10 UTC]

I reported #31395 only *after* trying to clean my /etc/hosts, and that did
not fix it, so I do *not* think that #31395 is a DUPLICATE.

[Comment 8 Ioannis Aslanidis (RETIRED) 2003-10-29 16:12:09 UTC]

All right... mine was a programming problem, not a fault of glibc...

[Comment 9 Andrew Cooks (RETIRED) 2004-01-31 14:51:08 UTC]

This bug has been inactive for 90 days or more.

Can this bug still be reproduced? I couldn't reproduce it.

Please test with glibc-2.3.2-r9 (or later) and reopen this bug if the problem persists.

[Comment 10 Alexander Gabert (RETIRED) 2004-09-23 19:16:44 UTC]

*** Bug 42855 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***