[sane-devel] IPV6 Only?

Simon Matter simon.matter at invoca.ch
Wed Jul 8 07:08:44 BST 2020


> Just installed saned to a raspberry pi running centos.  When I first
> started saned.socket it failed with "saned.socket failed to listen on
> sockets: Address family not supported by protocol".
>
> Huh?
>
> Turns out it will only start in IPV6 and I have that disabled in the
> kernel. (sysctl)  When I enabled IPV6 the daemon started fine...  but
> only on IPV6. 
>
> And it's disobeying my directive in net.conf to only listen on
> localhost, instead listening on *.
>
> systemd   1   root   43u  IPv6  12327      0t0  TCP *:6566 (LISTEN)
>
> Name        : sane-backends
> Version     : 1.0.24
> Release     : 12.el7
> Architecture: armv7hl
>
> What am I doing wrong?

You are using systemd :-)

What you see listening is not saned but systemd, that's why it doesn't
obey to what you have configured in net.conf.

I guess you have to fiddle with the systemd config now.

Regards,
Simon




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