gmdev ~ # ip -V ip utility, iproute2-ss120801 gmdev ~ # ip add ls 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000 link/ether 00:1e:c9:3a:44:5a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop state DOWN link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0 After downgrading to iproute2-3.4.0 gmdev ~ # ip -V ip utility, iproute2-ss120521 gmdev ~ # ip add ls 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000 link/ether 00:1e:c9:3a:44:5a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.50.45/23 brd 192.168.51.255 scope global eth0 inet6 2002:3e08:73ca:0:21e:c9ff:fe3a:445a/64 scope global dynamic valid_lft 85884sec preferred_lft 13884sec inet6 fe80::21e:c9ff:fe3a:445a/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop state DOWN link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0 gmdev ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.2.0_alpha120 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.7.1, glibc-2.15-r2, 3.5.0-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.5.0-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8200_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12 dev-lang/python: 2.6.8, 2.7.3-r2, 3.1.5, 3.2.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.8-r3 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.10.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22.90 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.7, 4.5.4, 4.6.3, 4.7.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.5 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r2 Repositories: gentoo x11 betagarden sunrise Grahams_local_portage Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="${EPREFIX}/etc/gconf /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --autounmask-write y" FCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildsyspkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch parse-eapi-ebuild-head preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en_GB en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/x11 /var/lib/layman/betagarden /var/lib/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 avahi bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo caps cdda cdr cli colord consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl cvs cxx dbus doc dri dts dvd dvdr eds emacs emboss encode evo examples exif expat fam ffmpeg flac fortran gd gdbm geoip gif gnome gnome-keyring gnome-online-accounts gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hardened htmlhandbook iconv icu idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility lcms libnotify libsamplerate logrotate lzma lzo mad mmap mmx mng modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap nautilus ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl pic png policykit postgres ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 readline samba sdl semantic-desktop session socialweb speex spell sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg tcl tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vim-syntax vorbis wxwidgets x264 x86 xattr xcb xcomposite xml xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel-hda" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en_GB en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_6 python2_7 python3_1 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fbdev nv nouveau" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" USE_PYTHON="2.6 2.7 3.1 3.2" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
looks like it was introduced by: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git;a=commit;h=8d07e5f7d995171ee8834eae268e300560de5d4f
Created attachment 321184 [details, diff] This patch restores the earlier logic, and seems to work for me.
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Fix `ip a s` so it shows addresses http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/iproute2/files/iproute2-3.5.0-ip-a-s.patch?rev=1.1 http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/iproute2/iproute2-3.5.0-r1.ebuild?rev=1.1
