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Ok thanks for advice - submitted here as suggested

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.p ... tid=303248

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This is still a problem with current cvs - as of 5/6/2005.

Should I come up with an alternate fix?

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Yes without it I cannot connect to any server at all - glad it helped you too!
I hope the developers take the patch or make a nicer version of it.

regards,

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Ya - me too. Did you try turning it off like I suggested? Go ahead ... ya never know.

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Hey glad it worked for you too

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Sorry forgot to attach the patch - its available here:



http://my.bzflag.org/bb/download.php?id=799

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Compiling on FC3 the call to gethostbyname() in net/Address.cxx is returning NULL - I suspect this is due it being non-rentrant (and now obsolete). Applying the attached patch fixes it for me - I am sure there are better cleaner etc ways but it does make it work. Sympton without this fix is no messa...

The problem seems to be bzflag is using obsolete resolver calls. The problem is gethostbyname() is not re-entrant - in my view anyway. Anyway if you change the call in src/net/Address.cxx to use gethostbygethostbyname2_r() instead of gethostbyname() it works fine. (I am sure there are alternate and ...

I had same problem - I fixed it in my case by turning off KDE sounds from control panel. There seem to be issues with sharing sound device/.

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