On 05/17/2011 12:52 AM, Neil Brown wrote:
> From: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx>
>
> It was observed that when ipv6 module was not loaded and cannot be auto-loaded,
> when starting NFS server, the following error occurs:
> "rpc.nfsd: unable to create inet6 TCP socket: errno 97 (Address
> family not supported by protocol)"
>
> This is obviously a true message, but does not represent an "error" when ipv6
> is not enabled. Rather, it is an expected condition. As such, it can be
> confusing / misleading / distracting to display it in this scenario.
>
> This patch instead of throwing error when a socket call fails with
> EAFNOSUPPORT, makes it as a NOTICE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> utils/nfsd/nfssvc.c | 9 +++++++--
> 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/utils/nfsd/nfssvc.c b/utils/nfsd/nfssvc.c
> index ea36399..f607214 100644
> --- a/utils/nfsd/nfssvc.c
> +++ b/utils/nfsd/nfssvc.c
> @@ -174,8 +174,13 @@ nfssvc_setfds(const struct addrinfo *hints, const char *node, const char *port)
> sockfd = socket(addr->ai_family, addr->ai_socktype,
> addr->ai_protocol);
> if (sockfd < 0) {
> - xlog(L_ERROR, "unable to create %s %s socket: "
> - "errno %d (%m)", family, proto, errno);
> + if (errno == EAFNOSUPPORT)
> + xlog(L_NOTICE, "address family %s not "
> + "supported by protocol %s",
> + family, proto);
> + else
> + xlog(L_ERROR, "unable to create %s %s socket: "
> + "errno %d (%m)", family, proto, errno);
> rc = errno;
> goto error;
> }
>
>
Committed...
steved.
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