[Dxspider-support] Ubuntu 9.04 - console.pl

[Ron Gibson]

Hi Dirk,
I also had "localhost" in DXVars.pm and libio-socket-inet6-perl 
installed. I have now changed it to "127.0.0.1" and re-enabled IPv6 and 
all is still working.

Thanks for everyones help.
73 de Ron VE3CGR



Gordon Stewart wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
> 
> DXVars.pm was:-
> $clusteraddr = "localhost";
> 
> and I have changed it to :-
> $clusteraddr = "127.0.0.1";
> 
> I have removed the # in my /etc/hosts file and restored it to its 
> original condition.
> 
> And yes both the console and client are still working nicely.
> Re-booted PC and both still starting up ok.
> 
> Yes I did have 127.0.0.1 localhost in my /etc/hosts file.
> Yes "libio-socket-inet6-perl" was installed by default.
> 
> So just changing the DXVars.pm entry from "localhost" to "127.0.0.1" 
> appears to have resolved my Console startup problem.
> 
> Gordon
> ZL2ARN
> 
> 
> 
> Dirk Koopman G1TLH wrote:
>> Hashing out that line /etc/hosts may cause other problems (if not now, 
>> then in a few years time).
>>
>> What does DXVars.pm say for $clusteraddr? Mine says '127.0.0.1' and I 
>> have not had this problem. However, I have had problems with 
>> 'localhost' in the past. So the first thing to do, probably, is to 
>> remove 'localhost' from the ::1 line in /etc/hosts and make sure you 
>> have a:
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>>
>> line in /etc/hosts.
>>
>> The other thing I have on my Ubuntu box is 'libio-socket-inet6-perl' 
>> installed (which is IO::Socket::INET6 in cpan speak). That should also 
>> help with this problem. If you have this module installed, it should 
>> sort problems of this kind out, as well as allowing IPV6 connections
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>> Gordon Stewart wrote:
>>> Hi Dirk, Ron, and the group,
>>>
>>> Seems the latest Distros and Kernels are now compiled with IPv6 as 
>>> default.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the info Ron, after much Google research on this subject 
>>> for Linux Mint (Debian) I finally found my solution.
>>>
>>> Hash out this line in /etc/hosts.
>>>
>>> "::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback"
>>>
>>> Both the console and client are now working at last.
>>>
>>> Gordon ZL2ARN
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ron Gibson wrote:
>>>> I figured it out. By using netstat I found that the cluster was 
>>>> listening on port 27754 using IPv6 only. Once I disabled IPv6 in 
>>>> Ubuntu all is well again.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dirk Koopman G1TLH wrote:
>>>>> Er...
>>>>>
>>>>> The cluster is running, isn't it?
>>>>>
>>>>> ps ax | grep cluster
>>>>>
>>>>> I ask because you have come from a non-ubuntu distro and starting 
>>>>> up the node is different.
>>>>>
>>>>> You will need to stick this file:
>>>>>
>>>>> #DXSpider startup script
>>>>> #
>>>>> # This service maintains a copy of dxspider from the point the 
>>>>> system is
>>>>> # started until it is shut down again.
>>>>>
>>>>> start on runlevel 2
>>>>> start on runlevel 3
>>>>>
>>>>> stop on runlevel 0
>>>>> stop on runlevel 1
>>>>> stop on runlevel 4
>>>>> stop on runlevel 5
>>>>> stop on runlevel 6
>>>>>
>>>>> respawn
>>>>> exec su -c "/usr/bin/perl -w /spider/perl/cluster.pl >dev/null 
>>>>> 2>&1" spider
>>>>>
>>>>> into: /etc/event.d/dxspider
>>>>>
>>>>> Ron Gibson wrote:
>>>>>> after multiple n's it ends at:
>>>>>> main::(console.pl:493): $SIG{__DIE__} = \$sig_term;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After Gordon ZL2ARN reported the same problem including a client 
>>>>>> program problem, I tried to connect using the client and it also 
>>>>>> terminates.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dirk Koopman G1TLH wrote:
>>>>>>> Ron Gibson wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Dirk,
>>>>>>>> Here is what I got:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Loading DB routine from perl5db/pl version 1.3
>>>>>>>> Editor support available
>>>>>>>> Enter h ........................
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Main::(console.pl:16): require 5.004;
>>>>>>>> DB<1>
>>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>>>> I pressed r and enter and got the bottom status line of console 
>>>>>>>> then:
>>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>>>> Debugged program terminated ...................
>>>>>>>> DB<1>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> oookaaay.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So start it up again with: perl -d console.pl
>>>>>>> and at the prompt type: n
>>>>>>> and then either press : n
>>>>>>> repeatedly and report the result.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dirk
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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