IPv6 addresses are hidden

[Daniël van Eeden]

Binary package hint: network-manager

The connection information dialog hides IPv6 addresses from the user.

It should at least show "global dynamic" addresses:
$ ip a l | egrep "(^[0-9]|inet6.*scope global)"
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
3: eth1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
4: eth3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    inet6 2001:654:62d:0:321:baaf:fe5e:88b/64 scope global dynamic
5: virbr0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
6: vboxnet0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
8: pan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release the Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[tikal808 (tikal808)]

I have IPv6 running on Lucid, and this is still a valid bug in Lucid. No IPv6 address or info is displayed in Network Manager's "connection information" dialog box. Network Manager should display connection info for both IP types on dual-stacked installations of Ubuntu.