Re: Help with Sun Java in Debian Sid

[Nick Lidakis <nlidakis@verizon.net>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 08:46:07AM +0100, godo wrote:
> On 01/30/2011 10:16 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> >I have been buying music from a website called HDtracks.com recently using my
> >Debian Sid desktop. They're wensite requires your run a download manager that
> >is a Java application for all music downloads. I have downloaded 2 albums
> >this past October without incident but ran into problems trying to buy music
> >yesterday.
> >
> >In trying to track down what was going on, I realized I had the Sun Java jre
> >installed from the non-free repository and openjdk-6-jre
> >openjdk-6-jre-headless. I tried using update-aletrnatives --config java to
> >pick between the two to no avail. I removed the openjdk packages and
> >currently only have Sun's Java installed.
> What is output of:
> cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only
> if output is 1 then:
> echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only
> 
> On my Sid and Squeeze box http://www.time.gov/ clock works so I hope
> we can find a solution.

Hi! The output was zero. You're suggestion worked! Can you explain why? 
My Sid laptop was working just fine with Java, but the desktop wasn't.
Does this survive a reboot?

Thanks much.