Karmic IPv6 Global address problems

If you're running IPv6 on Ubuntu 9.10 with multiple interfaces and you're not seeing any global IPv6 addresses assigned to your interfaces, and you're seeing this kind message in /var/log/messages:

Nov 13 10:10:10 my_machine kernel: [ 1000.101010] eth0: IPv6 duplicate address detected!

Then it's obviously Friday 13th and you should put it down to ....Yeah maybe but yesterday it was the same last week....

It seems there's a kernel (2.6.31-15) bug which means IPv6 Duplicate Address Detection (DAD - see RFC4862) is generating false-positives and subsequently not permitting your global address to be assigned to an interface.

To work around this bug do (change eth0 to your iface name):

sudo sysctl net.ipv6.conf.eth0.accept_dad=0

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) has dodgy input problem

I just upgraded to Karmic Koala and I'm NOT impressed - My mouse and keyboard have become unresponsive and sluggish - sometimes even losing keystrokes and control of the mouse for a few milliseconds at a time (I had to go back and correct this post due to missing keystrokes that I did make but didn't register).

I'm considering changing distro if this isn't fixed soon.

[update:9mar10]: See possible fixes here