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?
Sysctl to make sure v6 is disabled? On Nov 12, 2011 8:02 AM, "Kevin McGregor" kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com wrote:
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?
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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?
Success.
Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd. Starting web server: lighttpd. Starting network management services: snmpd. Starting MTA: exim4. Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd.
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 sheeva ttyS0
sheeva login:
Had to uncomment
alias net-pf-10 ipv6
in /etc/modprobe.d/aliases.conf. Exim doesn't like being told to listen on an IPv6 interface when there aren't any. Although I couldn't find anyplace where Exim was told to listen on IPv6 interfaces so I could tell it not to.
The error messages are gone, anyway.
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.netwrote:
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 :-).****
-Adam Thompson****
athompso@athompso.net****
(204) 291-7950 - direct****
(204) 489-6515 - fax****
*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?****
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