[cups.general] curious error message

[Michael Sweet]

Ambrose Li wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 03/11/06, Helmut Jarausch <jarausch at igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>> would anybody please explain the following error message
>> (in /var/log/cups/error_log)  to me
>> Unable to open listen socket for address ::1:631 - Address family not 
>> supported by protocol
>>
>> It seems cupsd is working anyway.
> 
> It means that cupsd thought that it can use IPv6, tried, then found
> out that there is no support for IPv6.

More specifically, your OS has IPv6 support but IPv6 has not been
enabled for any interfaces.

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