[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#670818: connection flaky with linux >= 3.3 and IPv6

[Michael Stapelberg]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.4.0-3
Severity: important
Tags: ipv6

Hello,

since upgrading to Linux 3.3, the version of NetworkManager currently in Debian
does not work properly for me anymore.

In my syslog, I see messages like this:
Apr 29 11:40:18 x200 kernel: ICMPv6 RA: ndisc_router_discovery() failed to add
default route.
Apr 29 11:40:25 x200 kernel: ICMPv6 RA: ndisc_router_discovery() failed to add
default route.
Apr 29 11:40:28 x200 NetworkManager[2004]: <info> (eth0): device state change:
activated -> failed (reason 'ip-config-unavailable') [100 120 5]
Apr 29 11:40:28 x200 NetworkManager[2004]: <warn> Activation (eth0) failed.

This problem is documented in the upstream bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=785772 and fixed in the current git
version of NetworkManager. To verify, I built and installed the git version and
this actually fixes the problem.

So, please either cherry-pick commit 77de91e5a8b1c1993ae65c54b37e0411e78e6fe6
or upgrade the package to a newer version of NetworkManager.

Thanks!

Best regards,
Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.3.4-1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113             add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                   1.4.12-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dpkg                   1.16.0.3          Debian package management system
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.1.1-P1-17-norel ISC DHCP client
ii  libc6                  2.13-10           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.4.12-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.98-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.6-9           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.32.0-4          GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.18-1         GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         175-3.1           GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.7-2           library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.7-2           library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.7-2           library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.4.0-3         network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.4.0-1         network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.104-2           PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1               2.19.1-2          Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-27            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                   175-3             /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant          0.7.3-3           client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda                          1.1.1-1    wireless Central Regulatory Domain
ii  dnsmasq-base                  2.58-2     Small caching DNS proxy and DHCP/T
ii  iptables                      1.4.11.1-2 administration tools for packet fi
ii  modemmanager                  0.4.997-1  D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  policykit-1                   0.104-2    framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp                           2.4.5-5    Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information