Hi. You're replying to the wrong thread. These two are similar as both are about IPv6 malfunction. Let's not confuse thing further, and move this part of the discussion to "Wrong URL" thread.
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:10:23AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > On 02/23/2018 08:38 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > On 02/23/2018 07:12 AM, Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 12:22:26PM +0100, Roger Price wrote: > > > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Reco wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On the EeePC Ctl-Alt-F3 /dev/tty3: > > > > > > ~ # ip address > > > > > > 3: enp0s4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> ... > > > > > > ... > > > > > > inet 10.218.0.100 scope global enp0s4 > > > > > > inet6 fe80::22cf:30ff:fe10:43fd/64 scope link > > > > > > > > > > > > The "fe" at the beginning of the IPv6 address says that > > > > > > this is not capable > > > > > > of working with the public IPv6 network. > > > > > There's one crucial detail that's missing here. I agree that fe80 > > > > > designates link-local IPv6 (they don't put "scope link" there for > > > > > nothing), but what about routing? > > > > > I.e. I'm curious about the output of "ip -6 ro l". > > > > rprice@kananga:~$ ip -6 ro l > > > > fe80::/64 dev wlan0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium > > > Now *that* actually means it should be impossible for this host to > > > connect to 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7. > > > > > > So either we have a little wonder here, or … do you have DHCP6 client > > > installed there by chance? Installer most certainly should include one, > > > and that could explain the difference in behavior between your current > > > host and d-i. > > > > > > Reco > > > > > > > > Interesting, > > > > The only entry in Synaptic for DHCP was kea-dhcp6-server. Synaptic > > installed: > > > > kea-common (1.1.0-1) > > kea-dhcp6-server (1.1.0-1) > > liblog4cplus-1.1-9 (1.1.2-3.2) > > > > Now, when I do apt update I get: > > > > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# apt update > > Ign:1 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian stretch InRelease > > Hit:2 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian stretch-updates InRelease > > Hit:3 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates > > InRelease > > Hit:4 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian stretch Release > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... Done > > All packages are up to date. > > > > Although if I do: > > > > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# dpkg --add-architecture i386 > > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# spt update > > > > then > > > > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# apt update > > Ign:1 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian stretch InRelease > > Hit:2 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian stretch-updates InRelease > > Hit:3 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian stretch Release > > Hit:4 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates > > InRelease > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... Done > > All packages are up to date. > > > > but, gdebi happily installed acroread, which requires i386 libraries, > > there were no warning or error messages. Acroread works notmally. > > > This is a bit later than the above message. > > I added backports to /etc/apt/sources.list > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.3.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 > 20171209-12:11]/ stretch contrib main > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.3.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 > 20171209-12:11]/ stretch main contrib > > deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib > deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib > > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stretch/updates main contrib > non-free > deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ stretch/updates main > contrib non-free > > # stretch-updates, previously known as 'volatile' > deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib > non-free > > deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ stretch-backports main contrib > non-free > deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ stretch-backports main contrib > non-free > > the I rebooted the system and got > > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# apt update > Ign:1 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian stretch InRelease > Hit:2 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian stretch-updates InRelease > Hit:3 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian stretch-backports InRelease > Hit:4 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian stretch Release > Hit:6 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > All packages are up to date. > > with a long pause before it finished. > > Then I ran sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 (as root) and got the > same result from apt update, but without the pause. Still no listing for > i386. Reco