Bug #17251

ping not working due to unsupported extended file attributes in aufs

Added by Anonymous 2019-11-21 21:23:34 . Updated 2019-11-22 10:43:19 .

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Description

You cannot use ping from the command line and receive this error: ping: socket: Operation not permitted

A workaround is running ping from /lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs/bin/ping google.com

Linking /bin/ping to /lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs/bin/ping might fix this issue

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#1 Updated by bonobo 2019-11-22 09:40:19

Tor can not send ICMP packets, but I guess your workaround might be useful for programs that need File Capabilities (Are there any more?) to function until tails switches to overlayfs.

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2019-11-22 10:43:19

Hi bat,

bonobo wrote:
> Tor can not send ICMP packets

Indeed, regardless of extended file attributes, ping google.com is not going to work anyway.

So I’d like us to take a step back: what user-facing problem are we trying to solve here?