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atalkd won't start in ubuntu 18.04

Bug #1839015 reported by padarjohn
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netatalk (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I recently upgraded my 14.04LTS system to 18.04LTS. Now I can't get appletalk to work. I've been using Netatalk with the same configuration files for literally decades. After upgrading to 18.04 I can no longer start atalkd. When I try to start atalkd I get

atalkd[7429]: setifaddr: eth0 (1-65534): Invalid argument. try specifying a smaller net range. kernel: [306678.802055] Too many routes/iface.

Changing the -net value in atalkd.conf has no effect.

My original atalkd.conf file consists of a single line:
eth0 -phase 2 -net 0-65534 -addr 65280.163

I've tried
eth0 -net 9461-9471
as well as just
eth0
with exactly the same result. I don't know where the 1-65534 is coming from.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: netatalk 2.2.6-1ubuntu0.18.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-50.54-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-50-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Aug 5 10:48:20 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-07 (1519 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: netatalk
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2019-05-20 (77 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.default.netatalk: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.netatalk.AppleVolumes.default: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.netatalk.AppleVolumes.system: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.netatalk.afp_ldap.conf: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.netatalk.afpd.conf: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.netatalk.atalkd.conf: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.netatalk.papd.conf: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.default.netatalk: 2015-06-15T16:43:55.877446
mtime.conffile..etc.netatalk.AppleVolumes.default: 2015-06-07T23:17:49.681494
mtime.conffile..etc.netatalk.AppleVolumes.system: 2013-11-02T10:31:50
mtime.conffile..etc.netatalk.afp_ldap.conf: 2013-11-02T10:31:50
mtime.conffile..etc.netatalk.afpd.conf: 2019-08-05T10:53:13.818567
mtime.conffile..etc.netatalk.atalkd.conf: 2019-08-03T10:10:10.794813
mtime.conffile..etc.netatalk.papd.conf: 2015-06-15T16:31:28.144424

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padarjohn (john-meissen) wrote :
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Doug Brown (macg3) wrote :

I ran into this same problem after upgrading to 18.04. The root cause is this patch, which was included in 2.2.6:

https://github.com/Netatalk/Netatalk/commit/bbc0d89c056be3a2b5efa6bf5428f7ba8f07a1d0

It tries to fix things for NetBSD, but in the process breaks things in Linux.

This is disgusting, but I manually patched the atalkd binary on my amd64 server to undo the patch, thus fixing this issue (netatalk 2.2.6-1ubuntu0.18.04.2):

At 0x70AA, change the byte from 0x01 to 0x00.
At 0x70BA, change the byte from 0x01 to 0x00.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in netatalk (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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dmarks (markstedt) wrote :

Netatalk 2.2.7 has been released today that addresses this bug: https://github.com/Netatalk/Netatalk/releases/tag/netatalk-2-2-7

The bug was patched in this PR: https://github.com/Netatalk/Netatalk/pull/131

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