Subject: prayer: fails to start if no IPv6 Routers present
Package: prayer
Version: 1.3.3-dfsg1-2
Severity: normal
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after installing a new debian squeeze system, prayer fails to start with
this error message:
> > #/etc/init.d/prayer start
Error was: [os_bind_inet_socket()] bind() failed: Address already in use
Aborted
failed!
but according to netstat, the http and https ports are free.
Config in /etc/prayer/prayer.cf
> use_http_port 80
> use_https_port 443
a deep inspection shows that the problem is that no IPv6 Routers are (in
my environment) present.
So the prayer was not able to bring the IPv6 Ports up.
As a lot of people have an "only IPv4 LAN", this error is hard to find.
Solution:
In the prayer.cf add after:
# Define a single HTTP port to bind to:
#
# You can define an arbitary list of ports of both kinds by using a series
# of separate "use_http_port" and "use_https_port" directives, with one
# port on each line. Format: "interface:port" or "ipaddr:port" to bind to a
# single interface, "port" to bind to all interfaces.
The lines:
# If you bind to all interfaces, prayer will bind to IPv6 and IPv4
# parallel and fails if one of this is not present. If you have
# only IPv4 (or only IPv6), you should use # the "ipaddr:port"
# format.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages prayer depends on:
ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii libc-client2007e 8:2007e~dfsg-3.1 c-client library for mail protocol
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libdb4.8 4.8.30-2 Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.23-7 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-3 SSL shared libraries
ii libtidy-0.99-0 20091223cvs-1 HTML syntax checker and reformatte
ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility
ii nullmailer [mail-transp 1:1.04-1.2 simple relay-only mail transport a
ii ssl-cert 1.0.26 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
prayer recommends no packages.
Versions of packages prayer suggests:
ii aspell 0.60.6-4 GNU Aspell spell-checker
pn imap-server <none> (no description available)
ii ispell 3.1.20.0-7 International Ispell (an interacti
pn prayer-accountd <none> (no description available)
pn prayer-templates-src <none> (no description available)
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/prayer changed [not included]
/etc/prayer/prayer.cf changed [not included]
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