Bug#267759: /usr/bin/gnome-netinfo: information about lo is incorrect

[Anand Kumria]

Package: gnome-network
Version: 1.99.5-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/gnome-netinfo

My lo device has two addresses:

anand@eve:~$ ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet 127.0.0.2/8 scope host secondary lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

However gnome-netinfo, although it displays two entries for the lo
device lists the address as 127.0.0.2 on both.

If you like I can attach a screenshot of the problem; alternatively you
can change the same by doing:

$ ip addr add 127.0.0.2/8 dev lo

and then running gnome-netinfo

Thanks,
Anand


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gnome-network depends on:
ii  dnsutils             1:9.2.3+9.2.4-rc5-1 Clients provided with BIND
ii  finger               0.17-7              user information lookup program
ii  iputils-ping [ping]  3:20020927-2        Tools to test the reachability of 
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.16-6            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.6.1-3             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0        0.2.6-4             Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0         2.6.2-5             Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0       2.6.1-1             The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                2.3.2.ds1-13        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0              0.2.29-1            Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4          2.6.2-1             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt1           1.1.12-8            LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.4.0-1           Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.4.6-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0          2.6.1-8             The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.6.1.1-2           A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.6.1.1-3           The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0       2.6.1.1-5           The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common  2.6.1.1-5           The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls7           0.8.12-6            GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.4.3-3             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62            6b-9                The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2            1:2.10.2-1.1        libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.4.1-1             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.7-4               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtasn1-0           0.1.2-5             Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libxml2              2.6.11-3            GNOME XML library
ii  net-tools            1.60-10             The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  traceroute           1.4a12-16           traces the route taken by packets 
ii  xlibs                4.3.0.dfsg.1-4      X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.1.1-5         compression library - runtime

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