Re: Package help requested (fwd)
FYI, I was poking at a new maintainer's packages and ran across this
problem....looking into it now....
C
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Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 02:50:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christopher C. Chimelis <chris@debian.org>
To: Jimmy O'Regan <jimregan@litsu.ie>
Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Package help requested
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
> > name: gnut
> > desc: Command line gnutella client
> > license: GPL
>
> Didn't get to check the package too much, but did check the
> software. Seems to have problems when finding an interface on Alpha
> (segfaults). I'll look into it and hopefully can supply a patch.
FYI, it's not gnut's problem on alpha that causes this, but rather a
problem elsewhere. The address family isn't getting set for TCP/IP
addressed interfaces, so gnut's interface/address iteration code can't
seem to find an interface that has an AF_INET address family set (and then
tries to memcpy from empty areas in memory, which is always bad).
I'm looking into this and it *might* even be a kernel problem, believe it
or not. Certainly would explain a few other similar problems that I've
been having with other packages (nmap, strobe, sniffit, etc).
At any rate, I tried commenting out the code that ignors the loopback
interface and it seems to work ok so far.
C
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