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Isum
2010-08-21
2013-05-20
  • Isum

    Isum - 2010-08-21

        After a reboot I attempted to start up ipblockUI like I always do and got this series of error msgs (the output of  egrep … /var/log/errors.log)

    Aug 21 09:06:39 myhost iplist: error: can't convert 192
    Aug 21 09:06:39 myhost iplist: error: no running iplist instance found
    Aug 21 09:06:48 myhost iplist: error: can't convert 192
    Aug 21 09:06:48 myhost iplist: error: can't send job to msq

    And here's the output of DEBUG=1 sudo ipblock -sl

    iplist: error: can't send job to msq
    ipblock: error: failed to start, cleaning up

    Of course, the "no running instance" only occurs once because iplist CAN be started, it's ipblock that won't. Subsequent attempts to start it result in the "can't convert 192" and "msq" error. In a previous thread someone else had this "can't convert" problem and it was fixed by log off/log on, which I have done repeated times with no improvement. 192 is the beginning of my localhost address, so I feel as though I'm missing something obvious, or at least something that might be obvious to someone with more knowledge than myself.  Searched everywhere for a solution to this, but I could only get 1 hit on google and it offered no solution. Also, I'm using Archlinux 64bit. Thanks in advance for any help.

     
  • Mike Zulkoski

    Mike Zulkoski - 2010-08-21

    Sorry I can't help, I am having exactly the same problem. 

    Just thought I would let anyone who can help know that more than one person is having problems with iplist and the ipblock GUI.

    I use Ubuntu 10.04 (lucud) on three computers and for no apparent reason the same problem appeared on all three at the same time.

    Mike

     
  • Noid

    Noid - 2010-08-21

    Same problem here. Last successful block was at about 8 am EST.

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2010-08-21

    Odd I had the same thing when I tried to start ipblock today.  It always ran fine until now.  Running Ubuntu Lucid.

    Aug 21 17:14:18 rbj-desktop iplist: error: can't convert 192
    Aug 21 17:14:18 rbj-desktop iplist: error: no running iplist instance found
    Aug 21 17:14:18 rbj-desktop ipblock: error: failed to start, cleaning up
    Aug 21 17:14:52 rbj-desktop iplist: error: can't convert 192
    Aug 21 17:14:52 rbj-desktop iplist: error: no running iplist instance found
    Aug 21 17:14:52 rbj-desktop ipblock: error: failed to start, cleaning up
    Aug 21 17:15:22 rbj-desktop iplist: error: can't convert 192
    Aug 21 17:15:22 rbj-desktop iplist: error: no running iplist instance found
    Aug 21 17:15:22 rbj-desktop ipblock: error: failed to start, cleaning up
    Aug 21 17:16:36 rbj-desktop iplist: error: can't convert 192
    Aug 21 17:16:36 rbj-desktop iplist: error: no running iplist instance found
    Aug 21 17:16:36 rbj-desktop ipblock: error: failed to start, cleaning up
    Aug 21 17:20:15 rbj-desktop iplist: error: can't convert 192
    Aug 21 17:20:15 rbj-desktop iplist: error: no running iplist instance found
    Aug 21 17:20:15 rbj-desktop ipblock: error: failed to start, cleaning up
    Aug 21 17:22:17 rbj-desktop iplist: error: can't convert 192
    Aug 21 17:22:17 rbj-desktop iplist: error: no running iplist instance found
    Aug 21 17:22:17 rbj-desktop ipblock: error: failed to start, cleaning up

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2010-08-21

    I got it to start by removing the bogon.gz url. 

    isumward 's post got me thinking. and I remembered that the log always showed lot of hits on 192.x.x.x 

    There must be something in the most recent bogon list?  I really don't know much about these things I just mess around until something works.

    Hopefully someone will have a real solution   and I hope I helped a little.

     
  • peakoil

    peakoil - 2010-08-21

    Hi there, I had the same Problem today, it seems that the Bogon.gz was faulty.
    I removed all entries at (root) /conf/ipblock.conf -> BLOCK_LIST="… "  and deleted all files at /var/cache/iplist (maybe deleting only BOGON.GZ would help you already).
    Then I added blocklist's URL, one by one, directly checking after it downloaded by enabling Ipblock.
    Well, it worked - hope that I could help you…
    Greetz

     
  • peakoil

    peakoil - 2010-08-21

    correction .. I removed all entries at (root) /etc/ipblock.conf

     
  • Isum

    Isum - 2010-08-21

    Works! Maybe an error in an update? I uncompressed the bogon.gz file and looked through the list and found this line at the very bottom:  Bogon:192.231.188.0-192

    I deleted the line, gzipped the file again, reversed the changes and loaded up no problem. Thanks for the help, everyone.

     
  • Noid

    Noid - 2010-08-21

    The last entry in bogon.gz is:
    192.231.188.0-192

    I changed that entry to:
    192.231.188.0-192.231.188.255

    and the program started up fine.

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2010-08-22

    what  i wonder is who is putting that into the file and why?

     
  • uljanow

    uljanow - 2010-08-22

    Nonetheless a faulty line should be ignored. I'll put that in the next release.

     

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