Bug 365585 – www-client/elinks-0.11.7: Error reading from socket on various web pages

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Miguel de Val-Borro 2011-05-01 16:22:42 UTC]

There is a time out and an error message on many webpages. For example the AMD64 handbook cannot be retrieved:

 Unable to retrieve http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml:
 Error reading from socket

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.9.42 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.5, libc-0-r0, 2.6.37-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.37-gentoo-r4-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8500_@_3.16GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p9
dev-lang/python:     2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.5
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1
sys-libs/glibc:      2.11.3
virtual/os-headers:  0
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS=""
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline session sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Panagiotis Christopoulos (RETIRED) 2011-05-03 00:50:56 UTC]

I tried on stable x86 and unstable amd64 and the current portage versions seem to work. The information you've provided are not enough to process this  bug. Please submit your "emerge -pv elinks" output and any relevant information you think might be helpful. Also check your network/firewall settings*. I resolve this as NEEDINFO. Reopen (UNCONFIRMED) only if you still think this is a bug of our side and you have submitted more information.  

*eg. on the same machine, lynx or other http clients work without problems?

[Comment 2 Miguel de Val-Borro 2011-05-03 14:44:33 UTC]

This is the output from "emerge -pv elinks" on my system. This bug is present in the current stable amd64 version. Other http clients such as lynx and firefox seem to work well.

[ebuild   R   ] www-client/elinks-0.11.7  USE="X bzip2 gpm idn ipv6 javascript nls perl ssl unicode zlib -bittorrent -debug -finger -ftp -gopher -guile -lua -nntp -ruby" 0 kB

[Comment 3 Panagiotis Christopoulos (RETIRED) 2011-05-03 17:20:29 UTC]

Reassigning to maintainer for further investigation. It would be helpful if you  tried to emerge an unstable version of elinks and report if it works or you still get the same error(-s).

[Comment 4 Miguel de Val-Borro 2011-05-03 17:45:18 UTC]

I have emerged the unstable amd64 version of elinks in Portage and it works fine to load the URL http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml.

# emerge -pv elinks

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] www-client/elinks-0.12_pre5-r1  USE="X bzip2 gpm idn ipv6 javascript mouse nls perl ssl unicode zlib -bittorrent -debug -finger -ftp -gopher -guile -lua -nntp -ruby -samba" 0 kB


The "Error reading from socket" message only appears in the stable amd64 version www-client/elinks-0.11.7.

[Comment 5 Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) 2011-06-12 14:02:24 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I have emerged the unstable amd64 version of elinks in Portage and it works
> fine to load the URL http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml.
> 
> # emerge -pv elinks
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] www-client/elinks-0.12_pre5-r1  USE="X bzip2 gpm idn ipv6
> javascript mouse nls perl ssl unicode zlib -bittorrent -debug -finger -ftp
> -gopher -guile -lua -nntp -ruby -samba" 0 kB
> 
> 
> The "Error reading from socket" message only appears in the stable amd64
> version www-client/elinks-0.11.7.

Could you please try editing the build file, replacing line 88 to read:
'  --without-zlib \', then running ebuild elinks-0.11.7.ebuild manifest and reemerging elinks?

[Comment 6 Miguel de Val-Borro 2011-06-12 15:58:14 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Could you please try editing the build file, replacing line 88 to read:
> '  --without-zlib \', then running ebuild elinks-0.11.7.ebuild manifest and
> reemerging elinks?

With this change in the ebuild, the stable version elinks-0.11.7 works fine for me on amd64.

[Comment 7 Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) 2011-06-12 16:21:42 UTC]

Thanks confirming, zlib is now disabled in the ebuild.