NetworkManager service stops starting on boot after upgrade to Xenial

Bug #1576364 reported by Jeff Lane 
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network-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Running Xenial on a Macbook Air. This was running Wily and was upgraded to Xenial using do-release-upgrade. Network Manager works, and can manage NICs, WiFI and VPNs that I have configured, however, the service no longer starts on boot like it did under Wily and like it should by default in any case.

I have to manually start NetworkManager after each reboot using "service NetworkManager start".

After that step, network is restored and works as it should.
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ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-21 (189 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151020)
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
 WimaxEnabled=true
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: network-manager 1.1.93-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Tags: xenial
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip libvirtd lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
nmcli-nm: Error: command ['nmcli', '-f', 'all', 'nm'] failed with exit code 2: Error: Object 'nm' is unknown, try 'nmcli help'.

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote : CRDA.txt

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tags: added: apport-collected xenial
description: updated
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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote : Dependencies.txt

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote : IpAddr.txt

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote : JournalErrors.txt

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote : NetDevice.lo.txt

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote : NetDevice.tun0.txt

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote : NetDevice.virbr0.txt

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote : NetDevice.virbr0-nic.txt

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote : NetDevice.wlp3s0.txt

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote : NetworkManager.conf.txt

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote : PciNetwork.txt

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote : WifiSyslog.txt

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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote : nmcli-con.txt

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. Could you copy the output of "systemctl status NetworkManager" after booting?

Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Incomplete
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Jeff Lane  (bladernr) wrote :

Gonna set this to invalid. After the third or fourth reboot, NM started loading on it's own and I no longer needed to manually do so. I don't know why, but I'm unable to recreate the original fail state now :(

Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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