dnsmasq PPA 2.58-3~openstack0~maverick1 causes 'failed to create listening socket errors'

[Dan Prince]

Using dnsmasq PPA 2.58-3~openstack0~maverick1 causes me the following errors when trying to use it w/ nova trunk:

(nova): TRACE: ProcessExecutionError: Unexpected error while running command.
(nova): TRACE: Command: sudo FLAGFILE=/etc/nova/nova.conf NETWORK_ID=1 dnsmasq --strict-order --bind-interfaces --interface=xenbr0 --conf-file= --domain=novalocal --pid-file=/var/lib/nova/networks/nova-xenbr0.pid --listen-address=192.168.0.1 --except-interface=lo --dhcp-range=192.168.0.2,static,120s --dhcp-lease-max=256 --dhcp-hostsfile=/var/lib/nova/networks/nova-xenbr0.conf --dhcp-script=/usr/bin/nova-dhcpbridge --leasefile-ro
(nova): TRACE: Exit code: 2
(nova): TRACE: Stdout: ''
(nova): TRACE: Stderr: '\ndnsmasq: failed to create listening socket for fe80::e6:88ff:fe6e:d33: No such device or address\n'

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If I run the following command to downgrade dnsmasq, nova-network works again:

apt-get install dnsmasq-base=2.55-1

I'm using Maverick. These errors started occurring for my on last Friday (I think)

[Vish Ishaya (vishvananda)]

FYI, this is the underlying bug seems to be that the combination of kernel/libvirt is causing dnsmasq to try to bind to ipv6 interfaces that aren't 'ready':

http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2011q3/005247.html