Yes indeed, there is something strange. I've got the same issue. But I never realized the problem because I always connect to arsystem using a tcp port regardless of the "Register-With-Portmapper" setting.
I digged through the sourcecode of rpcbind and found the problem. If a process is trying to register with portmapper the ip and port information is carried in a string. If the process trys to register a programm with tcpport 3334 the string is "0.0.0.0.6.13" 0.0.0.0 is for the ip address 6.13 is for the port 13 -> 0x0d 6 -> 0x06 0x0d06 -> 3334 The algo for computing the port from this string swapped the two bytes and this leads to registering the wrong port. #ifdef PORTMAP /* * Extract port from universal TCP/UDP address */ int uaddr2port(char *uaddr, u_long *p_port) { char *pt1, *pt2; int rc = -1; if ((pt1 = strrchr(uaddr, '.')) != NULL) { *pt1++ = 0; if ((pt2 = strrchr(uaddr, '.')) != NULL) { *pt2++ = 0; *p_port = atoi(pt1) * 256 + atoi(pt2); //Here I exchanged pt1 with pt2 and everything is working rc = 0; *--pt2 = '.'; } *--pt1 = '.'; } return rc; } Kind Regards Conny -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] Im Auftrag von michep Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. März 2011 14:25 An: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Betreff: Re: ARS 7.5p007 on SLES11 OMG! Its getting more and more interesting with every step! Ok, thanx to Conny ("-i" parameter to rpcbind service) now im able to start ARS server with Register-With-Portmapper:T option without errors. BUT!!! Now trying to connect to ARS server with RUT without specified TCP port I receive error: ARERR [90] Cannot establish a network connection to the AR System server : msk-m1-rem001 : RPC: Miscellaneous tli error - System error (Connection refused) Ok, thanx to Axton, I stop rpcbind service and started it in debug mode: rpcbind -id, and able to see whats happen inside. Restart ARS server, and see that a lot of registration commands (RPCB_SET) was processed and succeeded. Now, connecting with RUT without specified TCP and see rpc command in rpcbind log: PMAP_GETPORT req for (390620, 18, tcp) from 192.168.170.10.250.247 :port = 47240 So, comment was proessed and port number was returned - 47240. WTH!? I didn't remove port options in ar.conf, now its looks like: Register-With-Portmapper: T TCD-Specific-Port: 35000 Plugin-Port: 36000 and netstat shows that ports 35000 and 36000 are in LISTEN state, so why rpcbind returned wrong port number? Next, comment out port options: Register-With-Portmapper: T #TCD-Specific-Port: 35000 #Plugin-Port: 36000 and restart ARS server, truing to connect with RUT without specified TCP port - error again, rpcbind returns: PMAP_GETPORT req for (390620, 18, tcp) from 192.168.170.10.223.199 :port = 18773 BUT! ARS server is listening on different port: # lsof +M -p 13564|grep IPv4 ... arserverd 13564 root 9u IPv4 1994493 0t0 TCP *:21833 (LISTEN) ... Whats goning on?! And even one more finding - in this configuration arplugin reports segfault every one and a half minutes: Mar 9 16:02:10 msk-m1-rem001 kernel: [2598443.587831] arplugin[13909]: segfault at 1c ip 00000000f6a33cc1 sp 00000000f42fae28 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[f69c2000+15b000] I call support ... On 6 мар, 12:48, Conny Martin <conny.mar...@t-systems.com> wrote: > so go to /etc/sysconfig/rpcbind and add this line > > RPCBIND_OPTIONS="-i" > > then restart rpcbind (/etc/init.d/rpcbind restart) you should now see > the -i option in ps output If you start your arserver it should now be > able to register with portmapper On 6 мар, 02:33, Axton <axton.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Try starting rpcbind in debug mode to see what it reports. Look in > /var/log/messages to see if rpcbind is reporting anything there already. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"