Use as Hotspot works once only

[Michael]

Syystem settings > Network
Wireless
The button Use as Hotspot works once to produce a functional Access Point with WEP security
Editing the connection stops it working. Even withthe system connections deleted from /etc/NetworkManager Use as Hotspot will not now again create a hotspot

Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04
apt-cache policy network-manager-gnome
network-manager-gnome:
  Installed: 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu4.3
  Candidate: 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu4.3
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu4.3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.9.8.8-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

Expected a dialogue and hotspot creation as on first time

What happened : Nothing at all No additional entries on /var/log/syslog

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu4.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-46.79-generic 3.13.11-ckt15
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-46-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Mar 24 20:57:38 2015
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-31 (297 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 proto static
 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.2 metric 1
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
 WimaxEnabled=true
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
nmcli-con:
 NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH
 Wired connection 1 644247e1-f0e7-46d6-b1ec-0eb7eb96633e 802-3-ethernet 1427230561 Tue 24 Mar 2015 20:56:01 GMT yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0
nmcli-dev:
 DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
 eth0 802-3-ethernet connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
 wlan0 802-11-wireless disconnected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
 running 0.9.8.8 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Reassigning to the correct package. Use as Hotspot isn't something that comes from NM; the underlying APIs do seem to work properly.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you try if that's still an issue in newer Ubuntu versions?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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