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Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 - postfix not started
  • From: "Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:43:20 +0100
  • Message-id: <45CA1DC8.2554.0029.1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> On 07-02-2007 at 18:40, Sunny <sloncho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I fresh install of 10.2 in text mode (no X at all). After the
install,
> the only thing I did was to make online update, so the system is
> current.
>
> Upon boot, postfix fails, and in the mail.err lof file I see:
> "fatal: config variable inet_interfaces: host not found: ::1"
>
> I googled, and I found some old thread about 9.3, but it does not
look
> like helpful, as it says to modify the inet_interfaces in main.cf.
But
> in mine all inet_interfaces are commented out, and according to the
> comments this mean all interfaces will be used.
>
> The only place I see "::1" is in my /etc/hosts file, where after
that
> are listed licalhost, my short host name, and my extended hostname
> (incl. the domain).
>
> I also has the 127.0.0.1 line with the same.
>
> How do I fix all this?
>

Did you disable IPV6 on your installation (maybe during setup of the
network?)
If so, then I would remove the entry in the /etc/hosts file referring
to the localhost ::1

The error seems like you don't have a V6-localhost interface... so that
might do it then.

Dominique
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