FATAL ERROR: Unable to initialize communication

[[WbOF]fighter]

I had Installed the Linux Server, when i will start it, i had to read the followin log file:

07/07/2002 23:24:09 | ----Entering server init----
07/07/2002 23:24:10 | Created Threadlists
07/07/2002 23:24:10 | Done reading ini file
07/07/2002 23:24:10 | UDP+TCP created
07/07/2002 23:24:10 | Creating ping thread
07/07/2002 23:24:10 | Created ping thread
07/07/2002 23:24:10 | Creating UDPsender thread
07/07/2002 23:24:10 | Created UDPsender thread
07/07/2002 23:24:10 | FATAL ERROR: Unable to initialize communication

sorry about my english.

mfg
[WbOF]fighter

p.s. it is a SuSE 7.3 server, ask if you want to know more

[TR-13]

I believe your Firewall will block the udp protokoll on the port 8766 if og had done a standartinstallation!

[[WbOF]fighter]

hmm,...
my firewall was off, i think!

but i will test it again, in the afternoon!

when i am back from work!

[ScratchMonkey]

If it's iptables, use "iptables -L" to list the current configuration. Most Linux distros come with nice firewall config tools to install the tables, but it's useful to see the "raw" low-level rules sometimes to see if the pretty tool threw in a gratuitous blockage that you weren't expecting.

What does SuSE use to configure iptables?

I downloaded fwbuilder (http://www.fwbuilder.org/) to configure mine. Pretty nice tool.

[RichardVictory]

What did this turn out to be? I just started running a TSS base on my Slack 8 box, and I am getting the same thing. My firewall is OK, because it works most of the time.


About 50% of the time, TSS starts up properly. Eventually, what happens is that the TSS daemon goes to sleep, won't answer connections and I have to kill it.

The other 50% of the time, I get -that- as an error message in the TSS message log. The server shuts down immediately. Here's a log snippet:

18/08/2002 08:19:00 | ----Entering server init----
18/08/2002 08:19:00 | Created Threadlists
18/08/2002 08:19:00 | Done reading ini file
18/08/2002 08:19:00 | UDP+TCP created
18/08/2002 08:19:00 | Creating ping thread
18/08/2002 08:19:00 | Created ping thread
18/08/2002 08:19:00 | Creating UDPsender thread
18/08/2002 08:19:00 | Created UDPsender thread
18/08/2002 08:19:00 | FATAL ERROR: Unable to initialize communication
18/08/2002 08:19:01 | Server_DeInit -- Slept 2 secs
18/08/2002 08:19:01 | Server_DeInit -- Stopped TCP
18/08/2002 08:19:02 | Server_DeInit -- Stopped UDP
18/08/2002 08:19:02 | ----TeamSpeak server shutdown----
18/08/2002 08:19:02 | TeamSpeak Server daemon shutdown

I periodically also see this sprinkled throughout the log when the server is operating "normally":

18/08/2002 08:31:04 | in: TPingThread.PostData (TeamSpeak) exception EIdProtocol
ReplyError: 411 Length Required
18/08/2002 08:34:04 | in: TPingThread.PostData (TeamSpeak) exception EIdProtocol
ReplyError: 411 Length Required

Any ideas what is going on here?