Re: Adhoc: IPV4 setting 'link-local'

[i grok comcast net]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:27:14PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Huh; the key line here is
> 
> Aug 10 20:19:00 laptop avahi-autoipd.orig(wlan0)[3289]: socket() failed:
> Operation not permitted
> 
> Do you have the avahi-autoipd user in /etc/passwd and its group
> in /etc/group?  Should be something like this:
> 
> avahi-autoipd:x:498:498:avahi-autoipd:/var/lib/avahi-autoipd:/sbin/nologin

Since Simon appears to still be running Fedora 11, this is almost
certainly an SELinux denial. This was fixed in later SELinux policy
updates for F13 (and presumably F12, but I don't run that anymore), but
since F11 is EOL, I doubt it got updated.