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has caused the Debian Bug report #651903,
regarding iptables-persistent: Install/update fails with IPv6 disabled in
/etc/default/grub
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651903: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651903
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: iptables-persistent
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I ran an apt-get upgrade and iptables-persistent failed with the following
error message:
---
Setting up iptables-persistent (0.5.3) ...
ip6tables-save v1.4.12: Cannot initialize: Address family not supported
by protocol
dpkg: error processing iptables-persistent (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 1
---
On my system I have disabled IPv6 in the kernel by adding the following
line in my /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ipv6.disable=1"
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages iptables-persistent depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.41
ii iptables 1.4.12-1
ii lsb-base 3.2-28
iptables-persistent recommends no packages.
iptables-persistent suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/iptables/rules.v4 changed:
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [5485660:3110902712]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [5661665:3519857266]
COMMIT
-- debconf information:
* iptables-persistent/autosave_v6: true
* iptables-persistent/autosave_v4: true
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Checks were added to see if IPv6 was running. Seems to be working.
--- End Message ---
