Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.1) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages OS: Linux I have been watching this bug for ages. Problem: kdelibs error messages are very confusing and unhelpful, sometimes misleading. Reproducible: always. Steps to reproduce: [A] 1. Open KNode 2. Add fake NNTP server - machine, which responds to ping, but has no 119 port open. 3. Try to fetch newsgroups from the server. 4. Bug appears - it says "Coonection can't be established\nNo such file or directory" What file or directory does it refer to? In fact, the same behaviour has been reported there: http://www.mail-archive.com/cooker%40linux-mandrake.com/msg114919.html Command line says: $ telnet localhost 119 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused [completely different reason] [B] 1. Open KNode 2. This step is rather hard. I have DSL internet connection with terrible quality. From time to time it refuses external connections with ICMP messages "destination unreachable" or similar. When I want to get any message from server in such moment, I get "Couldn't connect[...]\nOperation now in progress", which is completely unrelated - I am sure no connection is being made at that moment. Ok. Now I can also reproduce this. I have just put following command onto my command line: $ iptables -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 119 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-unreachable It sends back ICMP host unreachable message when I want to connect to NNTP server. KNode says at that moment: "Connection couldn't be established\nOperation now in progress" Which is also misleading. The same for port unreachable, tcp-reset. I am not sure if this is kdelibs bug or just knode problem - can anyone reassign it, if appropriate?
In the first case you mention, I get "connection refused". I haven't tried the second case. (SVN revision 520548 on FreeBSD).
Will try to verify this on incoming 3.5.2 then. Small correction: - when I want to fetch newsgroups from non-existant nntp server, I get "no such file or directory" - when I want to fetch article and an error occurs, I get "operation is now in progress"
One more comment - just verified this on newly created, fresh user.
The same behaviour on 3.5.2.
With current version, the message is more sensible : "Could not connect to host news.example.org". Thus I'm closing this report.