gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')

[julio.desalvo]

How to Reproduce

While doing a GET operation on /, Trac issued an internal error.

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User Agent was: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032609 Firefox/3.0.8

System Information

Trac	0.11.4
Python	2.4.3 (#1, Jan 21 2009, 01:10:13) [GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)]
setuptools	0.6c9
SQLite	3.3.6
pysqlite	2.3.3
Genshi	0.5.1
mod_python	3.2.8
Pygments	1.0
Agilo	0.7.3.3-r1417-20090313
Subversion	1.5.5 (r34862)
jQuery:	1.2.6

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.4-py2.4.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 435, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.4-py2.4.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 216, in dispatch
    template, data, content_type = \
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.4-py2.4.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 311, in _post_process_request
    resp = f.post_process_request(req, *resp)
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/acct_mgr/web_ui.py", line 568, in post_process_request
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/acct_mgr/web_ui.py", line 607, in _send_email
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/acct_mgr/web_ui.py", line 537, in notify
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/acct_mgr/web_ui.py", line 127, in notify
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.4-py2.4.egg/trac/notification.py", line 246, in notify
    Notify.notify(self, resid)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.4-py2.4.egg/trac/notification.py", line 134, in notify
    self.begin_send()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.4-py2.4.egg/trac/notification.py", line 318, in begin_send
    self.server = smtplib.SMTP(self.smtp_server, self.smtp_port)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/smtplib.py", line 244, in __init__
    (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/smtplib.py", line 292, in connect
    for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM):
gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

Looks more like a configuration issue. It's trying to connect to the mailserver you specified under smtp_server and smtp_port, but cannot find the name or port. My initial suggestion is double checking those values/settings.

[Christian Boos]

No feedback in 3 months, closing.