Description of problem: Since I upgarded the server from Fedora 10 to 11. In the fail2ban.log are many messages: fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fail2ban-0.8.3-19.fc11.noarch How reproducible: All the time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error Expected results: No error Additional info:
Oh, I forgot, the tekst below is also in the fail2ban.log since the upgrade to FC11: Exiting Fail2ban cannot release un-aquired lock Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/fail2ban-server", line 126, in start self.__server.start(self.__conf["socket"], self.__conf["force"]) File "/usr/share/fail2ban/server/server.py", line 98, in start logSys.info("Exiting Fail2ban") File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 1033, in info self._log(INFO, msg, args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 1141, in _log self.handle(record) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 1151, in handle self.callHandlers(record) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 1188, in callHandlers hdlr.handle(record) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 664, in handle self.release() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 618, in release self.lock.release() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/threading.py", line 136, in release raise RuntimeError("cannot release un-aquired lock") RuntimeError: cannot release un-aquired lock
fail2ban is not working with python 2.6 (default in Fedora 11). Unfortunately there is no legacy package for python 2.5 in Fedora 11. See Bug 508171 for further details.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 508171 ***