Basic BIND9 startup failure?

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> Hello out there,
> 
> i hope my english is good enough.
> 
> I just have installed a RedHat 7.3 (intel version) out of the box including
> BIND version
> 9.2.1, bindconf and bind-utils. When starting up the named using the
> startup-script /etc/init.d/named start, the following goes into
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> >>    Nov  6 15:57:41 redhat1 named[2618]: starting BIND 9.2.1 -u named
> >>    Nov  6 15:57:41 redhat1 named[2618]: using 1 CPU
> >>    Nov  6 15:57:41 redhat1 named[2618]: socket.c:2263: unexpected error:
> >>    Nov  6 15:57:41 redhat1 named[2618]: isc_thread_create() failed
> >>    Nov  6 15:57:41 redhat1 named[2618]: ./main.c:404: unexpected error:
> >>    Nov  6 15:57:41 redhat1 named[2618]: isc_socketmgr_create() failed:
> unexpected error
> >>    Nov  6 15:57:41 redhat1 named[2618]: create_managers() failed:
> unexpected error
> >>    Nov  6 15:57:41 redhat1 named[2618]: exiting (due to early fatal
> error)
> >>    Nov  6 15:57:41 redhat1 named: Startup of named failed
> 
> Did i do some basic stuff wrong? It seems to me that:
> -named isn't looking for the existing file /etc/named.conf (normally, it
> says when starting up something like "using configuration file
> /etc/named.conf")
> -i have a major problem with my linux installation (standard installation
> out of the box on an Intel processor)
> 
> I've installed kernel 2.4.18-3 and 2.4.18-10, both including sources. BIND9
> will not work with any of those
> kernel versions. Is there anything else i can do?

	Run under a debugger and see why isc_socketmgr_create() is
	failing then workout how to address the problem.  There
	are three possible pthread calls that could be failing.
	You need to identify which (see ret) and why (see errno).

	Rebuild without threads (configure --disable-threads).

	Mark
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Christian Klapper
> Germany
> 
> 
> 
> 
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