Comment 22 for bug 761558

> I finally could verify/reproduce the issues you were seeing with
> connections initially never start DHCPv6 even if they are showing "Auto"
> for the method -- there is another part of network-manager which uses
> the assumption that a missing method (e.g. for a new device connection,
> which typically doesn't necessarily have an associated file on the
> filesystem) means "Ignore", which is obviously false at this point.

I think patch is what you need (maybe the last chunk only):

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2011-August/msg00063.html

> I also noted that there is such a check in nm-applet which would write
> "Ignore" and then include the assigned IPv6 addresses if the above is
> fixed, so now we have two separate tasks for network-manager and
> network-manager-applet. I'm working on both, and they should be fixed
> shortly.

Ok, thanks! I haven't looked into the GUI stuff at all.

> As for your crash, please try to reproduce it with apport enabled. You
> should see a file in /var/crash about this crash; we'd need this opened
> as a separate bug in order to be able to debug what is causing it. This
> is just so we can track each issue separately and know what is fixed and
> what isn't.

I'll do my best, but I can't promise you I find the time before next
week, I'm going away from Friday, and I've got a really busy schedule
today and tomorrow.

Best regards,
--
Tore Anderson