Bug#589868: jedit: IPv6-related kernel parameter's new default (bindv6only = 1) breaks network access

[Andreas Neudecker]

Package: jedit
Version: 4:04.03.99.02
Severity: important

Hi.

Recently jEdit stopped being able to install/upload plugins.
Then other Java applications followed.
A search pointed me to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561835#5 so I tried

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only

as suggested in the post mentioned above. This did indeed "solve" the problem.
According to what the poster writes, I submit this bug report so this
incompatibility of jEdit's with that new kernel parameter's default can be
fixed.

Regards

Andreas




-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

jedit depends on no packages.

Versions of packages jedit recommends:
ii  sun-java6-jre                 6.20-dlj-1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

Versions of packages jedit suggests:
ii  ant                           1.8.0-4    Java based build tool like make
pn  cscope                        <none>     (no description available)
pn  exuberant-ctags               <none>     (no description available)
pn  global                        <none>     (no description available)
pn  sun-java5-jdk                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  sun-java6-jdk                 <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information