On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:21:28PM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio enlightened us: > [Apologies if this is a duplicate; I sent it yesterday, and haven't seen > it crop up yet...] > > Hi, all. Just recently, I added an Ubuntu Linux box to my series of Debian > servers. All the stock Debian servers had backed up fine. However, my > Ubuntu box fails miserably. Going through the client's debug log, the thing > that really stands out is this: > > amandad: time 0.000: sending ack: > ---- > Amanda 2.4 ACK HANDLE 001-B8CA0608 SEQ 1137474902 > ---- > amandad: time 0.000: dgram_send_addr: sendto(0.0.0.0.858) failed: Invalid > argument > > > A "strace" run on the client's amandad shows the following interesting > snippet: > > sendto(0, "Amanda 2.4 REP HANDLE 001-F0B70608 SEQ 1137547581\nERROR [addr > 0.0.0.0: hostname lookup failed]\n", 95, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET6, > sin6_port=htons(847), inet_pton(AF_INET6, "::58d0:f6bf:c927:f6b7", > &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=0, sin6_scope_id=134513844}, 16) = -1 EINVAL > (Invalid argument) > > > It looks to me like the client -- which *is* IPv6 enabled, but has no IPv6 > interfaces -- is thinking IPv6-ish thoughts. Some Googling showed a thread > on this back in '03, and implied that a patch had been merged. Since I'm > running 2.4.5, I would have thought that would be yesterday's news. > > Any ideas on what to do? >
Someone was commenting about this in my local LUG IRC channel that Ubuntu wasn't using xinetd, but something else called inetutils-inetd. He was getting the same error and apparently fixed it by installing xinetd. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263