Bug 163006 - sun's java 1.4.2_08 can't open network sockets
Summary: sun's java 1.4.2_08 can't open network sockets
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 164165
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glibc
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-07-12 07:01 UTC by Noa Resare
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-07-12 10:45:25 UTC
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Description Noa Resare 2005-07-12 07:01:06 UTC
Description of problem:

Sun's latest patchlevel of it's 1.4.2 java software can not open network sockets
on FC4. In java 1.5 it works as expected, but unfortunately lots of software
require java 1.4 to function.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
j2sdk-1.4.2_08-fcs (x86)
glibc-2.3.5-10 (x86, x86_64)
kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4 (x86_64)

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. fetch and install j2sdk-1.4.2_08 from java.sun.com
2. compile and run the attached small program
3.
  
Actual results:
Exception in thread "main" java.net.SocketException: Invalid argument or cannot
assign requested address
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:305)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:171)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:158)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:452)
        at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:402)
        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:309)
        at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:124)
        at SocketTest.main(SocketTest.java:8)

Expected results:
nothing, or perhaps a ConnectException: Connection refused if you don't have a
listening sshd on localhost.

Additional info:
I understand that this is probably Sun's fault, but if there is a simple change
to be made to the glibc that fixes this perhaps it would be a good idea since a
lot of us in the RealWorld^tm are stuck with needing to run sun's 1.4 java and
the proabability of Sun fixing their software in a reasonable timeframe is
approaching zero.

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2005-07-12 10:45:25 UTC
glibc is not going to put in workarounds for bogus programs.
You really have to take this with Sun.

Comment 2 Noa Resare 2005-07-12 11:36:34 UTC
I have reported this issue to Sun. Is there any way of finding out how the glibc
api is used by a binary program? If I could point out exactly what they do wrong
perhaps this problem can be fixed a bit faster.

Comment 3 Jakub Jelinek 2005-07-12 11:38:49 UTC
You can try tracing the program with strace -f, if the call to glibc function
is done from the program and not from shared libraries it uses, you can use
ltrace as well.  And of course there is gdb.

Comment 4 Noa Resare 2005-07-26 14:30:13 UTC
FYI my attempts to pinpoint the problem failed. I filed an error report with sun
on 050712 with internal review ID 488634. It has not yet been turned into a web
searchable bug. The email with the report confirmation states that there is a
three week response time, so perhaps we'll have a bug report in a week.

In light of this it becomes obvious what a great job the redhat people are doing
with their product. Thanks!

Comment 5 Noa Resare 2005-07-28 07:51:47 UTC
Just for the lurkers, i got a response from sun today stating that passing
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true java works around the problem.

Comment 6 Jesus Salvo Jr. 2005-07-30 14:37:30 UTC
Thought I'd chip in the solution this: 
 
http://wiki.astrogrid.org/bin/view/Deploy/IPV6Warning 

Comment 7 Boris Folgmann 2005-08-24 09:38:37 UTC
I doubt that this is a glibc problem! On FC3 with glibc-2.3.5-0.fc3.1 and
kernel-2.6.11-1.35_FC3 everything works fine. But installing
kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 brakes Java's TCP implementation. Please see bug
#163650 and fix it.


Comment 8 Noa Resare 2005-08-25 18:34:56 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163650 ***

Comment 9 Archit Shah 2005-08-25 19:50:10 UTC
Marking this bug a duplicate of bug 164165, which is filed against the FC4
kernel and has a fix in CVS.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164165 ***


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