[Bug: 21.4.19] gnuserv-start

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: stephen at xemacs.org
> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:39:10 +0900
> Sender: xemacs-beta-bounces at xemacs.org
> 
> François Jouve writes:
> 
>  > * On more recent configurations (fedora 2, 4, 5) the situation is the
>  > following:
>  > 
>  > - No network or cable network up (ethernet eth0) : gnuserv fails.
> 
> I actually don't recall anything like this since 2000.  Can you
> provide URLs for the earlier discussions you found?
> 
>  > Other Features:
>  >   Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup.
> 
> This is the only thing I can think of that seems related, but it
> should not have anything to do with gnuserv.  It's something that
> needs to be done by the main application (ie, the xemacs binary) to
> conform to the IPv6 standard, but causes lots of problems in
> practice.  That has been solved for 5 years, though.
> 
> There are two possible changes that might with your problem.  First,
> it sounds to me like it's likely to be some kind of security
> configuration problem.  Please check the gnuserv man page to see if
> you can configure the GNU-SECURE protocol for your local host.  That
> might help, without having to rebuild gnuserv.

One other thing to check/try...do you have an entry for your system in
your hosts file? If not, it may be trying a DNS lookup and failing.

Note: I have not tried this (I already have an entry in my hosts file
for my system.)

You might try something like:
127.0.0.1 myhostname localhost localhosts.my.domain

I'm a FreeBSD user and don't use Linux, so I don't know for sure how it
handles this, but it might have changes between versions.
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