Debian Bug report logs - #906057
linphone: Linphone "cannot start transport on port 5060, maybe this port is already used" although it is not.

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eduardo Casais <casays@yahoo.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: linphone: Linphone "cannot start transport on port 5060, maybe this port is already used" although it is not.

Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:27:58 +0200

Package: linphone
Version: 3.6.1-3
Severity: grave
Tags: ipv6
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

After upgrading from Jessie 8 to Stretch 9 (64bits), Linphone has become
inoperative.

Linphone was used without problem with the setup and parameters under Jessie.
With the same configuration under Stretch, at start-up Linphone complains as
follows:

        Could not start tls transport on port 5060, maybe this port is already
used.

It is impossible to establish a call, or register to a SIP server.

The following approaches were attempted:

a) Changing from TLS to UDP or TCP

        Result: exactly the same problem remains.

b) Modifying the port number

        Result: no matter what port number is put, exactly the same issue
occurs.

        Checking with lsof -i -n -P, it appears that none of the ports
introduced
        are actually used. Linphone believes a port is in use while it is not.

d) Relying upon IPv6 instead of IPv4.

        Result:
        c.1) Linphone no longer complains about an occupied port.
        c.2) Linphone starts correctly listening to the port in question.
             lsof -i -n -P | egrep -i 5060 shows (for instance)

                linphone  9737     casaise   25u  IPv6 281289      0t0  UDP
*:5060

        c.3) However, it remains impossible to register the accounts to SIP
servers.
        c.4) Calling test accounts results in Linphone attempting to establish
the
             call but never managing to do it (timing out).

e) Some in the Internet suggest that the reason is a lack of privileges for the
user
   and that adding the user to the group plugdev or netdev could resolve the
situation.

        Result: the problem remains as it is.

f) The SIP utility Ekiga was also installed (but not started). Using Synaptic,
it was
   removed from the installation.

        Result: the problem remains as it is.

It may be that the in-place upgrade from Jessie to Stretch has left Linphone in
an
inconsistent state. I respectfully ask whether there is a workaround to the
above
problem.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages linphone depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.1.3-5
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.22.0-1
ii  libavcodec57              7:3.2.12-1~deb9u1
ii  libavutil55               7:3.2.12-1~deb9u1
ii  libc6                     2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libcairo2                 1.14.8-1
ii  libexosip2-11             4.1.0-2.1
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.7+b1
ii  libfreetype6              2.6.3-3.2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.36.5-2+deb9u2
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  13.0.6-1+b2
ii  libglew2.0                2.0.0-3+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.50.3-2
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]    9.0.0-2.1
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.31-2
ii  liblinphone5              3.6.1-3
ii  libmediastreamer-base3    3.6.1-3
ii  libnotify4                0.7.7-2
ii  libogg0                   1.3.2-1
ii  libopus0                  1.2~alpha2-1
ii  libortp9                  3.6.1-3
ii  libosip2-11               4.1.0-2.1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.40.5-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0       1.40.5-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0         1.40.5-1
ii  libpulse0                 10.0-1+deb9u1
ii  libsoup2.4-1              2.56.0-2+deb9u2
ii  libspandsp2               0.0.6+dfsg-0.1
ii  libspeex1                 1.2~rc1.2-1+b2
ii  libspeexdsp1              1.2~rc1.2-1+b2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.16.2-5+deb9u1
ii  libswscale4               7:3.2.12-1~deb9u1
ii  libtheora0                1.1.1+dfsg.1-14+b1
ii  libudev1                  232-25+deb9u4
ii  libupnp6                  1:1.6.19+git20160116-1.2
ii  libv4l-0                  1.12.3-1
ii  libvpx4                   1.6.1-3+deb9u1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxv1                    2:1.0.11-1
ii  linphone-nogtk            3.6.1-3

linphone recommends no packages.

Versions of packages linphone suggests:
ii  yelp  3.22.0-1

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Message #10 received at 906057@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Toby Douglass <toby_wp@winterflaw.net>

To: 906057@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: linphone: Linphone "cannot start transport on port 5060, maybe this port is already used" although it is not.

Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:11:27 +0200

On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:27:58 +0200 Eduardo Casais <casays@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Package: linphone
> Version: 3.6.1-3
> Severity: grave
> Tags: ipv6
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> After upgrading from Jessie 8 to Stretch 9 (64bits), Linphone has become
> inoperative.

All of the above, seconded.

Of the test fixes I've tried which are listed in the original message, 
all had the same result as the OP.

Message #15 received at 906057@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org>

To: 906057@bugs.debian.org

Subject: linphone: Linphone "cannot start transport on port 5060, maybe this port is already used" although it is not.

Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:42:06 +0100

I use linphone on stretch as my one and only telephone.
So far, I did not encounter this problem.
I suggest to downgrade this issue to "important",
because it seems to affect only few users.

Message #20 received at 906057@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthias Maisenbacher <matthias.maisenbacher@gmx.de>

To: 906057@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: linphone: Linphone "cannot start transport on port 5060, maybe this port is already used" although it is not.

Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:59:56 +0200

On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:42:06 +0100 "W. Martin Borgert"
<debacle@debian.org> wrote:
> I use linphone on stretch as my one and only telephone.
> So far, I did not encounter this problem.
> I suggest to downgrade this issue to "important",
> because it seems to affect only few users.
>
For me it is exactly the same problem as for the other two.
This is Debian 9.9 amd64.

Could possibly look somebody into it again?
I'd willing to test everything.

Here is another interesting hint for the problem:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=743494

(look at message #20)
How could I test this?

Message #25 received at 906057-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>

To: 906057-done@bugs.debian.org, 723073-done@bugs.debian.org, 723924-done@bugs.debian.org, 731661-done@bugs.debian.org, 737479-done@bugs.debian.org, 743494-done@bugs.debian.org, 783853-done@bugs.debian.org, 783855-done@bugs.debian.org, 783857-done@bugs.debian.org, 901244-done@bugs.debian.org, 927242-done@bugs.debian.org, 933602-done@bugs.debian.org, 940237-done@bugs.debian.org, 956662-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Closing bugs opened for old Gtk client

Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:43:51 +0100

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Hello,

you have reported a bug against Linhone 3.12 or earlier. This version
has been deprecated upstream for a couple of years and the old Gtk+
client has has been replaced with a new Qt-based client called
linphone-desktop. This will (hopefully) be released with Debian 11 aka
Bullseye.

We are sorry we could not deal with your bug report in time. However,
keeping your bug report open while we can neither check nor fix the
outdated client is not helpful in trying to iron out the remaining bugs
in the new client, so I have decided to close this bugreport.

Unfortunately, due to depending on Qt 5.12+ linphone-desktop cannot be
provided in buster-backports. If you can, please try the new client on
testing and report bugs. 

Bernhard

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