Comment 4 for bug 397393

this is not only related to ::1, but happens to fe80::217:<snip>:<snip>:3a85 and [::] , too.
with etc hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 bradley.lan bradley

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

and
[Fri Oct 16 03:04:49 2009] [crit] (EAI 9)Address family for hostname not supported: alloc_listener: failed to set up sockaddr for ::
as startup-error