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same goes for sim.
On Saturday 28 December 2002 04:00 pm, Maks Orlovich wrote:
> Michael Braun wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've had a problem with both licq and kopete under Mandrake (cooker). I
> > can start the software but did not get any network connections with an
> > icq server. Am I the only guy who has this problem? Should it be a
> > problem with the newest libqt3 ? I use KDE3.1(RC5).
>
> I am having the same problem with CVS builds of KDE, and I believe that's a
> glibc problem.. As a really evil workaround you can put in the IP addresses
> for the ICQ servers into /etc/hosts, that should make it "work".(There is
> an another workaround/evil-hack involving patching Qt, but I don't think
> you want to rebuild it yourself)
>
> (I've submitted the info on the apparent bug to glibc-bug-new, but I can't
> really use the glibcbug script as I don't have an MTA, and I am afraid it
> didn't seem to show up). Basically, when the following is built with
> -pthread:
>
> #include <netinet/in.h>
> #include <arpa/nameser.h>
> #include <resolv.h>
> #include <netdb.h>
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
>
> int main()
> {
> printf("(Initial) id = %d options = %d\n", _res.id, _res.options);
> res_init();
> printf("(After res_init) id = %d options = %d\n", _res.id,
> _res.options);
> printf("Inited = %d DNS count=%d\n", _res.options & RES_INIT,
> _res.nscount);
> gethostbyname("localhost");
> printf("(After gethostbyname) id = %d options = %d\n", _res.id,
> _res.options);
> printf("Inited = %d DNS count=%d\n", _res.options & RES_INIT,
> _res.nscount);
> }
>
> The result is:
> (Initial) id = 0 options = 0
> (After res_init) id = 0 options = 0
> Inited = 0 DNS count=0
> (After gethostbyname) id = 27443 options = 705
> Inited = 1 DNS count=1
>
> Which basically means that, when you ask glibc to initialize the resolver
> library, it doesn't. Qt (QDns) uses that to get a list of DNS servers. And
> as a result, you end up running an app that can't possibly lookup the IP
> addresses for the IM servers.
>
> This worked fine in earlier/original glibc-2.3.1 packages; it has also been
> confirmed/reproduced by people using Debian Sid glibc-2.3.1-8 packages; and
> not glibc-2.3.1-5; the difference there as in cooker seems primarily in
> updating along the 2.3.x branch -- so that may be a regression there...
>
> (Hoping that Gwenole Beauchesne notices this),
>
> -Maksim
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