Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 237733
"innd: SERVER cant listen RCreader Address already in use" on startup
Last modified: 2008-01-16 08:32:54 EST
Innd has started logging "innd: SERVER cant listen RCreader Address already in use" on startup. Here's a fragment of /var/log/news/news.notice: Apr 24 22:32:19 jik2 innd: SERVER perl filtering disabled Apr 24 22:32:20 jik2 innd: SERVER shutdown shutting down Apr 24 22:35:29 jik2 innd: SERVER descriptors 1024 Apr 24 22:35:30 jik2 innd: SERVER outgoing 1011 Apr 24 22:35:31 jik2 innd: SERVER ccsetup control:14 Apr 24 22:35:32 jik2 innd: SERVER lcsetup localconn:16 Apr 24 22:35:34 jik2 innd: SERVER rcsetup remconn:3 Apr 24 22:35:37 jik2 innd: SERVER cant listen RCreader Address already in use Apr 24 22:35:39 jik2 innd: news-transport.mit.edu opened news-transport.mit.edu:18:file The log message does not appear to have any ill effects (i.e., I can still transport and read news), but it is disconcerting nevertheless and should be fixed if it's a meaningless log message. I have inn-2.4.3-6.fc6. I've perused the config files and can't figure out what might be causing the error.
Sorry for delay, I became maintainer of inn today. Thanks for report, it is caused by switched lines in the code of innd(file rc.c). Error address already in use is considered as nonterminal, because some IPv6 systems already listening on any address will return EADDRINUSE when trying to listen on the IPv4 socket. Anyway, it should be fixed as it could be a bit confusing. Will do that in next rawhide build.
Fixed in inn-2.4.3-9.fc9 , will not backport to FC-6,F7,F8 as it is not critical issue and is in fact harmless. Closing RAWHIDE.