On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 02:34:57PM +0000, Alan Reding wrote: > Following your reply, I did a test which consisted of the following steps: > > 1. I ran sudo gedit /etc/default/grub, deleted/removed > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ipv6.disable=1 quiet", ran sudo update-grub and > rebooted my machine. > > 2. Immediately after the reboot, I issued the command nano /proc/cmdline and > below is the result: > > BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 root=UUID=[string of > alphanumeric characters] ro ipv6.disable=1 quiet > > 3. Next, I ran the command sudo grep -RF ipv6.disable /etc and below is the > result: > > /etc/default/grub.ucf-old:#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ipv6.disable=1 quiet" > /etc/default/grub:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ipv6.disable=1 quiet" > > I am puzzled why ipv6.disable=1 quiet appears in the above results of (2) and > (3) despite the fact that I had deleted/removed > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ipv6.disable=1 quiet" from /etc/default/grub.
I'll need to see the full contents of /etc/default/grub and /boot/grub/grub.cfg immediately after running step 1 above. (No need to reboot.) -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
