>>> used 'it' for YEARS in production, (commercial product,)
>>> several
>>> platforms, i386, amd64, FreeBSD versions 6.4-7.4.
>>>
>>> ONE DAY, ONE BRAND NEW CLIENT was having real problems with their
>>> mailq. email was backing up.
>>> Two days to figure it out, I deleted the INET6 module (on freebsd, its a
>>> lot easier, I suppose than on your linux thing).
>>>
>>> Now, all the email flowed perfectly. SA was trying to do ipv6
>>> lookups, the
>>>
>>> kernel did NOT have ipv6 compiled in.. NONE OF OUR PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
>>> DO, and there is no logical explanation for it.
>>>
>>> SA does NOT need INET6, unless you have two things:
>>> #0, INET6 compiled into your kernel
>>> #1, INET6 dns server as the first server in /etc/resolv.conf
>>> #2, INET6 firewall, routing, mx records, etc.
>>
>> Strong argument for removing it I guess, I think with:
>>
>> rpm -e --nodeps perl-IO-Socket-INET6
>
> By the way, is there a way to grep for the errant code? My
> feeble attempt didn't turn up much:
>
> cd /usr/lib/perl5
> grep -rin 'af_inet6' *
>
> Only gave 40 lines, which I could post if it would help.
> This only gave one result:
>
> grep -rin 'sub af_inet6' *
>
> 5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/bits/socket.ph:66: eval 'sub AF_INET6 () {
> &PF_INET6;}' unless defined(&AF_INET6);
>
> Is it pointless to try to diagnose in this manner?
After some help on the CentOS list, I may have found the problem:
> perl-NetAddr-IP-4.044-1.el5.rf <=== I think that is the problem package
>
> I don't know if that version is required by the repoforge packages ... but
> base contains perl-NetAddr-IP-4.027-5.el5_6
>
> I would see if I could replace perl-NetAddr-IP-4.044-1.el5.rf from repoforge
> with perl-NetAddr-IP-4.027-5.el5_6 from base.
rpm -e --nodeps perl-NetAddr-IP
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo
-- change all enabled = 1 to enabled = 0 temporarily (seems like
yum priorities is going to be a good idea) --
yum install perl-NetAddr-IP
/etc/init.d/spamassassin condrestart
Stopping spamd: [ OK ]
Starting spamd: [ OK ]
That seems to have done it. Does that make sense? Should
I report this to the RepoForge people?
