Bug#486269: gnutls26_2.3.14-1(experimental/amd64/xenophanes): FTBFS: Time out while doing checks

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2008-06-14 Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc at marcbrockschmidt.de> wrote:
[...]
> | Checking OpenPGP certificate verification
> | Cannot connect to 127.0.0.2:5557: Connection refused
> | Cannot connect to 127.0.0.2:5557: Connection refused
> | Cannot connect to 127.0.0.2:5557: Connection refused
[...]
> http://experimental.debian.net/build.php?arch=amd64&pkg=gnutls26&ver=2.3.14-1

> I'm not sure what service you are trying to connect to, but obviously,
> it doesn't work as expected. Other buildds showed the same problem.

Hello,

it is the shellscript tests/openpgp-certs/testcerts
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnutls.git;a=blob_plain;f=tests/openpgp-certs/testcerts;hb=d44ffe657ea8c86e4836fbf824e65b40db0346b4
[1]

It is starting a listening daemon on 0.0.0.0:5557. Then a client is
connecting to the server on "localhost", 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2.
The point of the exercise is certificate verification, the cert used
is limited to "127.0.0.1".

I am aware that e.g. in linux vserver 127.0.0.1 is not useable
(127.0.0.1 is the loopback address of the host system, and
therefore a daemon running in the vserver cannot bind to it.), but
I thought this was not a limitation of our buildd network.

Anyway, since gnutls-cli's exitcode is 1 both for verification failed
and connection refused, I do not see a better alternative than
disabling this test on the buildds.

cu andreas

[1]
(This is a slightly older version of the script. The version in 2.3.14
is functionally identical, except for using port 5557 instead of 5556.
No idea why git*web* is out of date, the git repo itself is ok.)

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