disabling ipv6 in network control panel does not disable ipv6

Bug #1777138 reported by Noel Grandin
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

If I select "disable" on the IPV6, I can see that it is still acquiring an IPV6 address, and that apt is still attempting to use IPV6, even though I have disabled.

I had to edit sysctl.conf to turn it off

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. That's a known issue upstream, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758312

"If you slide IPv6 to OFF in the gnome-control-center-UI, that corresponds to setting IPv6 to "ignore". There is no "disable" implemented (yet).

Probably one day we should have a really "disabled" method (which is bug 746041).

For now I reassign this bug to gnome-control-center, because this seems to confuse people.

Maybe a tooltip could help there?"

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The bug reference for the n-m issue is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746041

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