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Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) reached end-of-standard-support on April 29, 2021. See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it anymore. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in. ** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to initramfs-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1650631 Title: ip6=dhcp turns on ip=dhcp Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: When testing bug 1639930 I found that booting a system with: ip6=dhcp will enable ip=dhcp. ip= does not enable ip6=dhcp, so this is odd behavior. Thus, if you had an ip6 only network, in order to do this you have to do: ip6=dhcp ip=off This is really just a matter of a very strange behavior, but behavior that can be fixed by just explicitly passing ip=off. Related bugs: * bug 1639930: initramfs network configuration ignored if only ip6= on kernel command line * bug 1621507: initramfs-tools configure_networking() fails to dhcp IPv6 addresses ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: initramfs-tools 0.122ubuntu8.7 ProcVersionSignature: User Name 4.4.0-53.74-generic 4.4.30 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-53-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Dec 16 17:06:23 2016 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=vt220 PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: initramfs-tools UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1650631/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
