Ubuntu 18.04 and "Bad arg length for Socket::inet_ntoa" when using IPv6

Jeffrey Walton noloader at gmail.com
Sat Dec 12 17:13:33 UTC 2020


Hi Everyone,

Would someone have a look at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libhttp-daemon-perl/+bug/1904907
when time is available.

The issue causes self tests failures in a lot of packages, including
Wget and Wget2. When 'make check' fails it munges up the install
process. We don't have authority to install a package that fails its
self tests.

If I am parsing the issue properly, the fix has been available for
several years. This may also be helpful from Red Hat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0665:

* BZ - 1413065 - HTTP-Daemon does not support IPv6: Arg length for inet_ntoa
* BZ - 1492760 - IO::Socket::IP->new() fails to listen on unspecified
local address

Jeff



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