[mythtv-users] Recording failure.

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 17:39:34 +0100, you wrote:

>On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 16:59, Allen Edwards <allen.p.edwards at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> One solution was to add these lines
>>   net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
>>   net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
>>   net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1
>>
>> to etc/sysctl.conf
>>
>> But upon reboot I still had net.ipv6.conf.enp2s0.disable_ipv6 = 0 so that
>> didn't work
>>
>
>In /etc/sysctl.conf?  Are you saying that if you set this to 1 it would be
>reset upon reboot back to 0?
>
>
>> Another work around said to edit this instead /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf
>> but when I opened it, I see that the edits in  etc/sysctl.conf were there
>> as well so that didn't work
>>
>
>On my 16.04 system, they are the same file.  99-sysctl.conf is a symlink to
>../sysctl.conf.
>
>Then there was the suggestion to use the GUI and disable ipv6 from there.
>> That sounded like a great idea but I don't see "disable ipv6"  I see a
>> list of 5 Hosts in system->network->Hosts but that isn't close to the
>> instructions given in the work around.
>>
>> I would love to disable ipv6 but what it the correct way to do that on my
>> system?  Mystery.
>>
>
>Here's an article that seems to suggest that for 18.04 systems, the
>necessary solution is to actually achieve it by passing a kernel parameter
>on boot:
>
>https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-disable-ipv6-address-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux
>
>I tried Ian's suggestion and could not log into the computer remotely after
>> doing that so I removed it. The address of myth in my router is reserved so
>> I would have expected that to work.
>>
>
>Hmm.  Log in remotely how?  What method of logging in remotely are you
>referring to?  This would have to be worked through to solve the problem.
>I would suggest initially checking the Ethernet interface as it is with
>your Network Manager based settings using '/sbin/ifconfig -a' and then
>checking it again after applying settings in /etc/network/interfaces, with
>the same command to make sure it's getting set-up correctly.
>
>Cheers, Ian

From reading those bug reports, I would say that disabling IPv6 is
likely a red herring.  It seems to be a DHCP problem, so the easy way
to fix that is to use a static IP address as suggested by Ian.