[Freeipa-devel] Wrong timeout parameter in ipapython

[Rob Crittenden]

Sylvain Baubeau wrote:
>    Hi,
>
> I was facing an error with ipapython that caused an NSPRError exception to
> be raised at line 159 of ipapython/nsslib.py :
>
> 157                 logging.debug("connecting: %s", net_addr)
> 158                 try:
> 159                     self.sock.connect(net_addr, family)
> 160                 except Exception, e:
> 161                     logging.debug("Could not connect socket to %s,
> error: %s, retrying..",
> 162                                   net_addr, str(e))
>
> The error message was : [Errno -5990] (PR_IO_TIMEOUT_ERROR) I/O operation
> timed out.
>
> It seems like the second argument to 'connect' is a timeout, not the
> socket family. I attached a patch that just removes the second argument.
> Or am I missing something ?
>
> Regards
> Sylvain Baubeau

I'll do a full review tomorrow but it looks like you are correct, this 
is timeout not family. Under what conditions were you getting the 
timeout? Are you using IPv4 or IPv6 addresses?

thanks

rob