Re: Stats Collector Won't Start

On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 14:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Brad Nicholson <bnichols@ca.afilias.info> writes:
> > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 13:00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> That's bizarre.  What error conditions does your man page for bind(2)
> >> document as yielding EACCES?  The only one mentioned on my systems is
> >> "protected address", but we aren't requesting a reserved port number ...
>
> > "The requested address is protected, and the current user does not have
> > permission to access it."
>
> That's what the Linux man page says, too.  Could getaddrinfo somehow be
> returning bogus data that includes a reserved port number?
>
> Would you try strace'ing postmaster start to see what gets passed to the
> socket() and bind() calls just before this message comes out?

Here is the relative output from truss.

open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY)                    = 7
kioctl(7, 22528, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000) Err#25 ENOTTY
kfcntl(7, F_SETFD, 0x0000000000000001)          = 0
kioctl(7, 22528, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000) Err#25 ENOTTY
kread(7, " #   @ ( # ) 4 7\t 1 . 1".., 4096)    = 2770
kread(7, " #   @ ( # ) 4 7\t 1 . 1".., 4096)    = 0
close(7)                                        = 0
socket(2, 2, 0)                                 = 7
bind(7, 0x00000001100E3BF0, 16)                 Err#13 EACCES
kwrite(2, " 2 0 0 6 - 1 0 -", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " 1 8   1 9 : 0 1", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " : 0 1 . 7 2 5  ", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " U T C   [ 2 8 2", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " 9 3 2 ]        ", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " L O G :     c o", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " u l d   n o t  ", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " b i n d   s o c", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " k e t   f o r  ", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " s t a t i s t i", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " c s   c o l l e", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " c t o r :   P e", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " r m i s s i o n", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, "   d e n i e d\n", 8)                = 8
close(7)                                        = 0
kwrite(2, " 2 0 0 6 - 1 0 -", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " 1 8   1 9 : 0 1", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " : 0 1 . 7 2 8  ", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " U T C   [ 2 8 2", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " 9 3 2 ]        ", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " L O G :     d i", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " s a b l i n g  ", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " s t a t i s t i", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " c s   c o l l e", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, " c t o r   f o r", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, "   l a c k   o f", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, "   w o r k i n g", 8)                = 8
kwrite(2, "   s o c k e t\n", 8)                = 8


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Brad Nicholson  416-673-4106
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