fping on ubuntu:bionic fails to ping

[perithompson]

When trying to use the icmp ping template I get the error "(null): can't create raw socket (must run as root?) : Address family not supported by protocol"

I looked around for possible reasons but it seems that fping will not work with ipv6 disabled on host.

[dotneft]

Fixed! Thank you!

[perithompson]

@dotneft which tag has this fix? I am still getting fping failed: (null): can't create raw socket (must run as root?) : Address family not supported by protocol after pulling the zabbix-server-pgsql:ubuntu-4.2.4, is there a work around for this problem or is it just upgrading the version of ubuntu that will contain the fix??

[dotneft]

I tried to use latest one (compiled by myself). I will check zabbix-server-pgsql:ubuntu-4.2.4. Did you use icmpping checks?

[perithompson]

yep, the standard Template Module ICMP Ping: ICMP ping checks which launches fping, I think it is related to schweikert/fping#118 seems that the bionic apt package library doesn't include the latest patch that would have that fix in, or at least that's what I found when trying to update fping when building my own container from the main image