Re: [Lynx-dev] --enable-nsl-fork doesn't always work ?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 06:52:29PM -0300, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 05:40:47PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 05:36:13PM -0300, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> > > Here, it hangs at "Looking up sempreaovivo.radio.br", after ~10 
> > > seconds returns "Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host." and I can 
> > > get it back.
> > > 
> > > But I was wrong. I thought it worked on Slackware, but I compiled 
> > > 2.8.8dev.12 on it and it does the same. 2.8.7rel.2 works fine.
> > 
> > But "here" (Debian 5.0 with 2.8.2dev.12 or 2.8.7rel.1) both hang.
> > The difference between rel.1/rel.2 is not related to this area.
> > Comparing traces on your working/non-working versions might show
> > something useful - if I trace it, I see this error:
> > 
> >     HTParse:      result:`sempreaovivo.radio.br'
> >     Looking up sempreaovivo.radio.br
> >     HTGetAddrInfo: getaddrinfo(sempreaovivo.radio.br, 80): Name or service 
> > not known
> >     Unable to locate remote host sempreaovivo.radio.br.
> >     HTTP: Unable to connect to remote host for 
> > `http://sempreaovivo.radio.br/' (errno = 2).
> > 
> >     Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
> > 
> >     HTAccess:  status=-29999
> >     HTAccess: `http://sempreaovivo.radio.br/' has been accessed, No data 
> > loaded.
> >     stop_curses: done.
> > 
> > fwiw, it also hangs from my desktop with firefox.
> 
> Sorry, I meant 2.8.7rel.1. Attached are the traces from Slackware 
> -current. While 2.8.7rel.1 interrupts with 'z', with 2.8.8dev.12 (self 
> compiled) it doesn't and I need to wait.

I experimented a little, and see that the problem is in the IPv6 code.
Turning that off fixes this issue (though there's probably a correction
that I can make).

At the moment I'm working on xterm and expect to work on mawk next -
then back to lynx ;-)

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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