Currently virNetSocketNewListenTCP bails out early under the following conditions: - the hostname resolves to at least one IPv4 and at least one IPv6 address - the local interfaces have that one IPv4 address assigned, but not any of the IPv6 addresses - the local interfaces have just IPv6 link-local addresses In this case the resolver returns not only the IPv4 addresses but also IPv6. Binding the IPv6 address will obviously fail. But this terminates the entire loop, even if binding to IPv4 succeeded. To fix this error, just keep going and loop through all returned addresses. In case none of the attempts to bind to some address succeeded, try to report some appropriate error. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf(a)aepfle.de&gt; --- v3: more whitespace fixes, as suggested by Daniel P. Berrang�� v2: whitespace fixes, as suggested by John Ferlan src/rpc/virnetsocket.c | 23 ++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/rpc/virnetsocket.c b/src/rpc/virnetsocket.c index 7087abec9c..3a055acd39 100644 --- a/src/rpc/virnetsocket.c +++ b/src/rpc/virnetsocket.c @@ -382,11 +382,8 @@ int virNetSocketNewListenTCP(const char *nodename, #endif if (bind(fd, runp->ai_addr, runp->ai_addrlen) < 0) { - if (errno != EADDRINUSE) { - virReportSystemError(errno, "%s", _("Unable to bind to port")); - goto error; - } - addrInUse = true; + if (errno == EADDRINUSE) + addrInUse = true; VIR_FORCE_CLOSE(fd); runp = runp->ai_next; continue; @@ -409,14 +406,14 @@ int virNetSocketNewListenTCP(const char *nodename, fd = -1; } - if (nsocks == 0 && familyNotSupported) { - virReportSystemError(EAFNOSUPPORT, "%s", _("Unable to bind to port")); - goto error; - } - - if (nsocks == 0 && - addrInUse) { - virReportSystemError(EADDRINUSE, "%s", _("Unable to bind to port")); + if (nsocks == 0) { + if (familyNotSupported) + errno = EAFNOSUPPORT; + else if (addrInUse) + errno = EADDRINUSE; + else + errno = EDESTADDRREQ; + virReportSystemError(errno, "%s", _("Unable to bind to port")); goto error; }