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Bug#5257: talk won't start up ...



Package: netstd
Version: 2.07-1

I can't seem to get talk going.  I can receive talk requests from other
hosts (i.e. I get the message on my terminal), but I can't respond.

When I start talk, whether initiating a connection or trying to respond,
it bails out, giving the error:

[Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99)]

on the top line of the terminal.

I had some considerable trouble installing the net stuff when upgrading in
August.  Previously I had a setup which was over a year old, an old a.out
system.  It took a lot of fiddling to get biff/comsat to work - I can't
remember how I managed it in the end - but anyway, it's possible that this
is all a setup problem here, I suppose ...

Cheers,

Nikhil.

--
Nikhil Nair
Trinity College, Cambridge, England
Tel.: +44 1223 368353
Email: nn201@cus.cam.ac.uk
       nnair@debian.org



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