Bug#929469: systemd-networkd: systemd-networkd: fails with "could not set address: Permission denied"

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi,

sorry for the delay.

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Could you give the packages at
> https://people.debian.org/~biebl/systemd/buster/ a try?

It seems to work for me:

$ sudo sysctl net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
$ cat /etc/systemd/network/test.netdev 
[NetDev]
Name=test
Kind=dummy
$ cat /etc/systemd/network/test.network 
[Match]
Name=test

[Network]
Address=192.168.5.1/24
Address=abcd:abcd:abcd:abcd::1/64
$ sudo systemctl status systemd-networkd
● systemd-networkd.service - Network Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-networkd.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:systemd-networkd.service(8)
$ sudo systemctl start systemd-networkd
$ sudo systemctl status systemd-networkd
● systemd-networkd.service - Network Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-networkd.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2019-07-02 10:45:21 CEST; 1s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-networkd.service(8)
 Main PID: 1235 (systemd-network)
   Status: "Processing requests..."
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
   Memory: 1.8M
   CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-networkd.service
           └─1235 /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd

juil. 02 10:45:21 x260-buxy systemd[1]: Starting Network Service...
juil. 02 10:45:21 x260-buxy systemd-networkd[1235]: test: netdev ready
juil. 02 10:45:21 x260-buxy systemd-networkd[1235]: enp0s31f6: Gained IPv6LL
juil. 02 10:45:21 x260-buxy systemd-networkd[1235]: Enumeration completed
juil. 02 10:45:21 x260-buxy systemd[1]: Started Network Service.
juil. 02 10:45:21 x260-buxy systemd-networkd[1235]: test: Gained carrier
juil. 02 10:45:21 x260-buxy systemd-networkd[1235]: test: An IPv6 address is requested, but IPv6 is disabled by sysctl, ignoring.
juil. 02 10:45:21 x260-buxy systemd-networkd[1235]: test: Configured

> The debdiff is larger then I had hoped, so I'm not sure if the SRMs will
> ack this changeset. It's quite well possible that I messed something up
> when doing the backport, so aaving at least a confirmation that it fixes
> the issue at hand would be welcome.

Thank you for this work!

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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