ping reports "system error"

[p.H]

Is it the ping utility from iputils or inetutils ?

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dpkg -S $(which ping)

[hbauer]

Breaking a system tool and then asking what broke it isn't really a good way to go about solving it. Post a lot of info, after you check it first, of course.

This is right after the install. No additional stuff was installed. I can uninstall sudo or traceroute but I really believe this is not the root cause for this.

[hbauer]

Is it the ping utility from iputils or inetutils ?

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dpkg -S $(which ping)

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dpkg -S $(which ping)
iputils-ping: /bin/ping

[bw123]

Breaking a system tool and then asking what broke it isn't really a good way to go about solving it. Post a lot of info, after you check it first, of course.

This is right after the install. No additional stuff was installed. I can uninstall sudo or traceroute but I really believe this is not the root cause for this.

So what installed mdns and added the [NOTFOUND=RETURN] stuff? was that in the guide somewhere? dnsutils pkg is needed for nslookup? All this was a fresh install?

sudo or traceroute not in guide either? How they got installed?

I don't do the debootstrap thing, but I was thinking it should be a pretty tiny little base system, none of that would be installed?

[p.H]

Maybe try to install inetutils-ping instead ?

[hbauer]

So what installed mdns and added the [NOTFOUND=RETURN] stuff? was that in the guide somewhere? dnsutils pkg is needed for nslookup? All this was a fresh install?

sudo or traceroute not in guide either? How they got installed?

this was part of my attempts to fix it. The error appeared right after installation.

[hbauer]

Maybe try to install inetutils-ping instead ?

great that fixed it.

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ping www.debian.org
PING www.debian.org (5.153.231.4): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 5.153.231.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=40,961 ms

I was not aware of the fact that for a tool like ping there are multiple alternatives