IPv6 Nightmares. Why cant I not use!

[triad]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 07:55:02 +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
<fabbione at canonical.com> wrote:
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> triad wrote:
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> | Sorry to burst your bubble but I have rebooted my computer more times
> | then when I did when I ran Windows but IPv6 Still shows up.!!   This
> | doesnt answer my question but gets me infuriated at thinking that
> | responses to ubuntu Mailing lists can be as Niave as yours.
> |
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> modutils is used only by 2.4 kernels. mostlikely you have a 2.6 kernel
> and you using module-init-tools that uses /etc/modprobe.d/ as
> configuration directory.
> 
> You need to edit _also_ /etc/modprobe.d/aliases too and run update-modules.
> 
> Check that /etc/modules.conf is update properly.
> 
> This is the standard procedure. but that's not enough.
> 
> Apparently there is another bug somewhere between the kernel and
> module-init-tools that even if you ban ipv6 will still allow some
> applications to trigger the load of the module.
> Personally i don't remember if this is the normal behavior or not.
> 
> ntpdate is the first one in the boot process that shows this behavior,
> but there are others.
> 
> so a simple workaround is to rename or remove the ipv6 module from
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/ipv6/ipv6.ko.
> FYI: This will spawn an extra error message during the boot process.
> 
> For reference https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2443
> 
> Fabio


Thank you Fabio!  Worked like a charm.   This thing has been driving
me up the wall for a couple days (as you can tell from my last
response).

Andy