Re: embedded Perl + empty arpcache bug patch fixes

On Dec 13, 2003, at 11:59 PM, Andy Lee wrote:
> I've attached a patch that fixes a couple of problems with a
> recent CVS checkout. Basically one-line fixes.
>
> The first was with the new embedded Perl. The userloader.c has
> an #ifdef PERL instead of the #ifdef USE_EMBEDDED_PERL that is
> used elsewhere. This typo prevents any Perl subroutines from
> being called and shows up in syslog with:
> "Unknown user function genre: 2"
>
> The second patch is for Mattias Weidle's patch:
> http://lists.backhand.org/pipermail/wackamole-users/2003-October/ 
> 000254.html
> that fixes the empty local arpcache bug. He uses a function
> named Alarm() which was undefined in the CVS version I pulled
> so I converted that line to call the wack_alarm() function that
> I saw elsewhere in the source tree.

Applied

> As for some unresolved bugs that I'm hoping someone can help
> track down, after shutting down wackamole (i.e. by killing off
> the wackamole processes), wackamole cannot be restarted properly.
> It just keeps on trying to connect to spread unsuccessfully.
> Rebooting fixes the problem. wackatrl -f segfaults. The machines
> I am running are running the Linux 2.4.23 kernel. They have
> iptables blocking everything except udp port 4803. If someone
> can give me leads on how to narrow down the problem, I'd
> appreciate it.

Anything to syslog?  It should be printing the Spread connection error  
there.  If not, run it with -d (to run it with debugging and in the  
foreground).  That should give some insight.

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