[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#657109: network-manager: NM fails to set IPv6 default route when IPv6 details entered manually (fix found on LP)

[Alban Browaeys]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.2.0-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I setup a box to route the traffic between an adsl router and a lan with NM.
To this purpose I used "manual" mode though there was a drawback. No default route and
"<warn> Failed to add route Missing attribute
<error> [1327370425.596871] [nm-system.c:1061] nm_system_replace_default_ip6_route(): (external0): failed to set IPv6 default route: -1"
shown up in the logs.
Any reports on the net told the above could eb harmless as a next attempt would follow.
BUt my conneciton ended up reproducibly without a default route.


I tested the fix from :
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/precise/network-manager/precise/view/head:/debian/patches/nl3-default-ip6-route.patch
with success. I now get a default route to the external interface.

Cheers
Alban

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113
ii  dbus                   1.5.8-1
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.2.2-2
ii  libc6                  2.13-24
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.5.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.98-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.30.2-5
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.16-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         175-3
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.3-2
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.3-2
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.2.0-2
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.2.0-2
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.104-1
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-1.2
ii  lsb-base               3.2-28
ii  udev                   175-3
ii  wpasupplicant          0.7.3-6

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.59-4
ii  iptables      1.4.12.2-1
ii  modemmanager  0.5-1
ii  policykit-1   0.104-1
ii  ppp           2.4.5-5

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
no-auto-default=7e:3d:91:6f:47:17,8e:7a:26:fa:e2:c9,d2:31:48:5b:7e:71,7a:f7:50:ca:4b:4f,ba:80:04:c0:ae:e9,82:00:f4:e1:09:3a,7a:5c:e0:75:9d:56,0a:74:76:43:ce:2a,76:57:c9:10:67:ee,4e:29:6d:26:58:97,5a:57:05:14:9e:26,66:9d:3b:b8:d4:7a,e2:04:92:a2:40:ef,22:35:c3:a8:9f:0d,3a:36:74:59:7a:9a,22:60:aa:85:e0:4b,e6:db:dd:aa:14:b4,42:15:29:5d:9e:8b,86:98:4e:3a:bc:7f,a6:cd:0a:76:fe:4d,52:7b:bd:4f:85:a8,f2:41:76:63:5f:49,b2:2f:a1:82:a7:e2,aa:27:73:3d:68:78,3e:7e:da:1c:99:47,1a:15:be:b5:7e:f0,a6:1a:d2:00:71:89,
[keyfile]
unmanaged-devices=mac:00:50:ba:e1:a4:b5;mac:00:18:f3:02:33:79;mac:00:0f:b5:8c:1a:f0;mac:00:c0:49:f4:5b:45;mac:4e:4d:3a:c3:d2:19;mac:c6:a8:f5:9f:22:6c;mac:7A:F7:50:CA:4B:4F
[ifupdown]
managed=false


-- no debconf information