Hello! I just wanted to chime in: My co-worker and I ran into this exact problem. The `traceroute6` command was giving us "sendto: Invalid argument", and we did not have the `traceroute` package installed. It was only by finding this Launchpad bug that we became aware of the problem, after about half an hour of confusion and web-searching.
One other note: In addition to installing the `traceroute` package, we also had to use `update-alternatives`, so that running traceroute (or traceroute6) would go to the executable provided by the traceroute package. This was really confusing, so I would like to suggest that some sort of action be taken upstream: Maybe a Release Notes item, or some other way to let sysadmins know that the `traceroute6` executable in the iputils package has an important bug (as per the Debian bug entry), and that the workaround is to install the traceroute package, and then use `update- alternatives` to set traceroute's traceroute6 as the preferred traceroute6. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to iputils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1798313 Title: traceoute6 gives error sendto: Invalid argument Status in Iputils: Fix Released Status in iputils package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in iputils package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: When running the following command all get is an error. (traceroute6.db works) # traceroute6.iputils 2001:4860:4860::8888 traceroute to 2001:4860:4860::8888 (2001:4860:4860::8888) from 2a00:8780:3:42:b92a:b222:8bed:4a9b, 30 hops max, 24 byte packets sendto: Invalid argument 1 traceroute: wrote 2001:4860:4860::8888 24 chars, ret=-1 *sendto: Invalid argument traceroute: wrote 2001:4860:4860::8888 24 chars, ret=-1 *sendto: Invalid argument traceroute: wrote 2001:4860:4860::8888 24 chars, ret=-1 * This seems like a regression of Debian bug https://bugs.debian.org /cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843264 Package version installed: iputils-tracepath 3:20161105-1ubuntu2 amd64 # lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/iputils/+bug/1798313/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
