Something along the lines of listening only on 0.0.0.0, but not ∷0.  I’m sure exim has a listen-on-this-address directive, but it’s been so long I don’t remember what it’s called or where it is.  Personally, I would fix the problem by installing Postfix :-).

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From: roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca [mailto:roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca] On Behalf Of Kevin McGregor
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 08:02
To: MUUG Roundtable
Subject: [RndTbl] Exim error

On boot, my SheevaPlug computer (running Ubuntu) emits this:

Starting MTA:eth0: link up, 100 Mb/s, full duplex, flow control disabled
Starting web server: lighttpd.
Starting network management services: snmpd.
Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd.
 exim4.
ALERT: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size, mail system possibly broken ... failed!
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 sheeva ttyS0
sheeva login:

Looking in /var/log/exim4/paniclog, I see

2011-11-11 19:52:02 IPv6 socket creation failed: Address family not supported by protocol

I'm not using IPv6; I don't know exim. Any pointers on how to resolve this, aside from replacing exim?