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  1. Bug #1681912
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Comment 0 for bug 1681912

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Etienne Papegnies (etienne-papegnies) wrote : [Zesty] missing dnsmasq package breaks NetworkManager connection sharing feature

Network settings in Zesty allow users to define a connection as "Shared to other computers", this does not currently work in Ubuntu MATE 17.04 Beta 2.

The reason, from the logs is that dnsmasq binary, from dnsmasq package is not present:

[...]
Apr 11 20:37:22 Edge NetworkManager[946]: <info> [1491935842.1052] Executing: /sbin/iptables --table nat --insert POSTROUTING --source 10.42.0.0/255.255.255.0 ! --destination 10.42.0.0/255.255.255.0 --jump MASQUERADE
Apr 11 20:37:22 Edge NetworkManager[946]: <error> [1491935842.1117] device (enp1s0f2): share: (enp1s0f2) failed to start dnsmasq: Could not find "dnsmasq" binary
Apr 11 20:37:22 Edge NetworkManager[946]: <info> [1491935842.1119] Executing: /sbin/iptables --table nat --delete POSTROUTING --source 10.42.0.0/255.
[...]

ouroumov@Edge:~$ apt-cache policy dnsmasq
dnsmasq:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.76-5
  Version table:
     2.76-5 500
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe i386 Packages

After installing package dnsmasq, connection sharing works again as expected.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: ubuntu-mate-core 1.190
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-19.21-generic 4.10.8
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Tue Apr 11 20:39:44 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-04-05 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Beta amd64 (20170321.1)
SourcePackage: ubuntu-mate-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)