Re: freevo2 trunk: tvserver rpc address bind failure

----- Original Message ----
> From: Jason Tackaberry <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wed, August 4, 2010 4:57:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [Freevo-devel] freevo2 trunk: tvserver rpc address bind failure
> 
> On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 14:37 -0700, Alain Péteut wrote:
> > DEBUG  sockets(397): Replacing dead unix socket at 
>/tmp/kaa-1000/('localhost', 
>
> >  7600)
> 
> Notice here that it's using a UNIX socket instead of a TCP  socket.
> 
> >   File 
> >  
>"/home/alain/freevo-test/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tvserver/scheduler/rpc.py", 
>
> > line 64, in listen
> >     ip, port =  config.rpc.address.split(':')
> > ValueError: need more than 1 value to  unpack
> 
> It looks like dischi assumed that you'd always use a TCP socket in  the
> form 'host:port'.
> 
> kaa.Socket (which is the underlying socket class  in kaa that RPC uses)
> itself is very liberal in terms of what it accepts for  address formats,
> but the tvserver constrains it to just  host:port.
> 
> However, while you can specify 'localhost:1234' to establish  a
> connection, you couldn't specify a hostname for listening sockets,  which
> is what the rpc.address config value defines.  That is,  127.0.0.1:1234
> was valid but localhost:1234 wasn't.
> 
> I added support  for this.  Try updating kaa.base.
> 

Success, now it works flawless. Thanks!

> 
> > Configuration:
> >  ...
> > # | IP address and port to use for inter-process  communication
> > rpc.address =  ('localhost', 7600)
> >  ...
> 
> One important thing to note is that with freevo2 and kaa, config  files
> are, unlike Freevo 1.x, not Python scripts that are interpreted, so  a
> value like "('localhost', 7600)" is treated as a string and happens  to
> not be a valid form.
> 
> The correct form is host:port.  So this  should work:
> 
>    rpc.address = 127.0.0.1:7600
> 
> Now, you said  you got a socket.error here:
> 
> > >  rpc.address =  127.0.0.1:7600
> > > leads to
> > > socket.error: [Error 22]   Invalid argument
> 
> This was actually the exception traceback I was more  interested in,
> because this should have worked (and it worked for me).   Can you update
> kaa.base and try to reproduce?  If it still happens,  please provide the
> traceback.
> 
> With kaa.base r4305, you should now be  able to specify:
> 
>    rpc.address = localhost:7600
> 
> This would  also work, if you want to listen on all interfaces:
> 
>    rpc.address =  :7600
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
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