NetworkManager crashes when tethered with USB

[Christian González]

On my Ubuntu 13.10, NetworkManager crashes when I turn on USB tethering on my connected Android phone. Funnily, this does NOT occur on an USB live Ubuntu system, there everything went fine - just here onmy installed and upgraded (from Kubuntu 13.04, with KDE first) box.
Same crash BTW when connected per Cat-5 cable to a DSL modem and starting the DSL connection.

Is there anything I could do debugging this issue? - I'm technically not that bad, but debugging of system programs has always frightened me.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: network-manager 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu22
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 26 23:42:32 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-06-30 (118 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.43.1 dev eth1 proto static
 192.168.43.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.43.166 metric 9
MarkForUpload: True
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
 WimaxEnabled=true
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-18 (8 days ago)
nmcli-con:
 NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH
 pesco a236ba8c-852d-4dd9-bb53-35262ac891c2 802-11-wireless 1378334656 Don 05 Sep 2013 00:44:16 CEST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/2
 Pemphigus 9ed05781-639f-45b4-b920-751cb4ae9802 802-11-wireless 1382614441 Don 24 Okt 2013 13:34:01 CEST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1
 DrOetker 6cd1128f-4795-4be0-851d-9672d497ef86 802-11-wireless 1382823735 Sam 26 Okt 2013 23:42:15 CEST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0
 Innode Arnikaweg ac89b561-8d97-4ada-a7f3-565b68601012 pppoe 0 never yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/3
nmcli-dev:
 DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
 eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
 eth1 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
 running 0.9.8.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled

[Christian González (droetker)]

BTW, while writing the apport bug report, I am connected by wifi to my android phone, which works perfectly well. cable ethernet and WLAN in any way works perfectly.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates.

I'm going to close this bug report as their is nothing else we can do with this old report in a now unsupported version of Ubuntu. If you still have this issue on Ubuntu 14.04 or higher, please do reopen or report a new bug.