Re: [Sks-devel] Failure while binding socket

[John Clizbe]

address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed sks 1.1.0 on ubuntu 8.10 and successfully imported the
> keydump from ftp://ftp.pramberger.at/services/keyserver/keydump/
> Afterwards I tried to start the database but it failed with the error
> message:
> Failure while binding socket.  Probably another socket bound to this address

<snip>

> address@hidden:/usr# sudo sks db
> Fatal error: exception Failure("Failure while binding socket. Probably
> another socket bound to this address")
> address@hidden:/usr# 

Dunno. My troubleshooting list...

Anything else listening on port 11371? 'netstat -a |grep 11371'

Try starting sks after a reboot.

Try starting sks from the dir with the database dirs: /[usr|var]/lib/sks

What values are defined in sksconf?

See http://www.keysigning.org/sks/ for more info


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