ping: socket: Address family not supported by protocol
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Iputils |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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iputils (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The ping utility prints this curious error/warning message:
```
ping: socket: Address family not supported by protocol
```
Otherwise seems to be working just fine:
```
> ping 127.0.0.1
ping: socket: Address family not supported by protocol
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.048 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.050 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.043 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.046 ms
```
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: iputils-ping 3:20200821-2
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Uname: Linux 5.8.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu48
Architecture: amd64
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CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Sep 29 10:42:17 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-05 (1484 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
SourcePackage: iputils
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in iputils: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in iputils: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Thank you for the bug report, that's an upstream issue and has been reported there
https:/ /github. com/iputils/ iputils/ issues/ 293