Hi, I had a similar problem, resulting in exactly the same debug messages from sshd.
In my case, /etc/hosts did not contain anything. After adding 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 ip6-localhost X-forwarding was fine. Judging your ifconfig output, you don't have IPv6 configured correctly, most likely due to missing IPv6 module. You said it's enabled in the kernel, so lo must at least contain something like this: lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host Can you make sure that you're using a sensible /etc/hosts and have IPv6 loopback? (modprobe ipv6?) -- mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://adi.thur.de PGP/GPG: key via keyserver Bachelor: A man who chases women and never Mrs. one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]