[hybrid] Clients can't connect (register) on Ubuntu 12.04LTS system

Fri Jul 12 03:51:43 EDT 2013

Just as a quick test before work, I made sure selinux was disabled...
root at copstick4:/etc/ircd-hybrid# setenforce 0
setenforce: SELinux is disabled
root at copstick4:/etc/ircd-hybrid# /etc/init.d/ircd-hybrid restart
Restarting Hybrid 7 IRC Server: ircd-hybrid.
root at copstick4:/etc/ircd-hybrid# irssi

...but still got the same client-not-registering problem.  Thanks for the
tip Jack, but sadly that wasn't it...

--Dave

On 12 July 2013 08:47, David Smith <dfluff76+hybrid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jack,
> I just included some server logs in another post, but basically, all it
> shows is lots of "Module loaded", finishing with "Server Ready" when the
> server starts up.  It doesn't log anything when clients connect (but then,
> neither do the log files of my working ircd-hybrid installs... is there a
> way to make it do this?).
>
> Client-wise, I've tried x-chat from external machines, and the
> command-line clients irssi, and Bitch-X, when I've been connecting from a
> terminal window on the server itself (and have also used these clients from
> external machines).  Again, I'm not aware of a way to make any of these
> clients any more verbose than they normally are.  Is there a way?
>
> selinux isn't something I've had any experience with... but a quick google
> makes it sound like it could be the kind of thing that would cause issues
> like this... I will investigate more when I'm home from work this evening.
>
> Cheers,
> --Dave
>
>
> On 12 July 2013 08:37, Jack L <xxjack12xx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What do the logs show? What irc client are you using? What do the logs
>> show? Is selinux disabled?
>>
>> Sent from far away...
>>
>> On Jul 12, 2013, at 12:23 AM, David Smith <dfluff76+hybrid at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I have tried several machines, including connecting locally from the
>> problem machine on 127.0.0.1.  All fail in the same way.  All machine are
>> able to connect to other irc servers without problem, both on the local LAN
>> and out on the internet.
>>
>> --Dave
>>
>>
>> On 12 July 2013 03:46, Jack L. <xxjack12xx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Have you tried on another machine? Maybe it's a client side firewall?
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:28 PM, rjvahc at googlemail.com
>>> <rjvahc at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> > I know this problem, but there is no solution in few words. You must
>>> dig
>>> > deep to get out what's the problem this day, reading logs, modifying
>>> > configs in small steps and so on. I could try to help going into
>>> machine
>>> > if it is clean with no sensible data, but no idea what it could be with
>>> > the text you provided. By the way, sentences with "...Ident response"
>>> > are kinda only thing an IRC server says when having problems, it's like
>>> > "* Ident response" = "I got problems", with no details what problems it
>>> > could be.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > В Чтв, 11/07/2013 в 21:43 +0100, David Smith пишет:
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm having a headache of a time building a PC to replace my previous
>>> >> server box, which has been running ircd-hybrid for many years.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> The new box is a 64bit machine, with Ubuntu 12.04LTS 64-bit server
>>> >> edition installed.
>>> >>
>>> >> I've installed ircd-hybrid, and moved my old config across, but when
>>> >> that failed to work, I went back to basics, and used the provided
>>> >> ircd.conf, with only the server IP and the "havent_read_conf" setting
>>> >> changed (i.e. no server passwords or any other obvious gotchas).
>>> >>
>>> >> The problem is that whenever any client connects, I get the following:
>>> >> 21:20 -!- Irssi: Connection to 10.9.2.1 established
>>> >> 21:20 !hybrid7.debian.local *** Looking up your hostname...
>>> >> 21:20 !hybrid7.debian.local *** Checking Ident
>>> >> 21:20 !hybrid7.debian.local *** No Ident response
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> ....but then *nothing* else.  I can leave it for many minutes, (5...
>>> >> 10...), after which the connection sometimes drops out, sometimes
>>> >> doesn't, depending on the client.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> I have tried through the 127.0.0.1 address, and through the eth0 LAN
>>> >> address.  I have tried clients on other machines.  There is no
>>> >> firewall in the way (nothing in "iptables -L").
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Don't be fooled by the "No Ident response" final line... I have tried
>>> >> installing an ident server, so that it DID get an ident response, and
>>> >> it halted at just the same point.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> The version installed here is the stock from Ubuntu12.04LTS,
>>> >> 7.2.2.dfsg.2-6.3 but I have tried other versions from ealier/later
>>> >> Ubuntu distros.  I think I've also tired an 8.x version (..I've tried
>>> >> so many things, I've lost track..), and all of those that I have
>>> >> managed to install/compile successfully have behaved the in the same
>>> >> way.  My original attempt was a self-compiled .deb with SSL enabled,
>>> >> but, again, that did not work, although the very same .deb did work on
>>> >> another 12.04LTS 64-bit machine.  I've even formatted the box, and
>>> >> done a fresh OS install followed by an apt-get install of hybrid-ircd,
>>> >> and still get the same results!
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> I have only found a handful of posts describing this problem on
>>> >> Google, and of those, one ended in the advice of "use another ircd",
>>> >> and the other threads just went cold, or never got a first response.
>>> >> I cannot use another ircd, since I'm joining this to other
>>> >> hybrid-ircds on other boxes.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> (eg http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1432177  and
>>> >> http://bit.ly/18QqdHs  both sound like my problem, but with no
>>> >> solutions).
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> So.. have you guys come across anything like this?  Or, what can I do
>>> >> to help diagnose the problem?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Many thanks,
>>> >>
>>> >> --Dave
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>
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