Bug#858870: gnome-control-center: Can't turn on hotspot

Ricardo Ramos cesar.rickinho at gmail.com
Wed May 10 20:25:56 UTC 2017


Hi Fran,

I did a fresh stretch install, however, I think that it's more of a bug in
the package itself, as I saw the same bug reported on an arch and fedora
forums for the exact same version.
Maybe the next update will fix this issue.


A Qua, 10 de mai de 2017, 20:23, Fran Glais <franglais125 at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Hello Ricardo,
>
> Thanks a lot for the fix you provided! For anyone else finding this, I
> used:
>
>     hostnamectl --pretty set-hostname $(hostname)
>
> However the question remains: does this need to be applied on all new
> installations (Stretch), or is it a problem with the upgrade path
> Jessie->Stretch?
>
> Best,
> Fran
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:45 PM, Fran Glais <franglais125 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Package: gnome-control-center
>> Version: 1:3.22.2-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> I can no longer use the built-in wireless Hotspot feature. When I click
>> "Use as
>> Hotspot" in the Settings->Network->Wi-Fi section, and then "Turn on",
>> nothing
>> happens.
>>
>> * What led up to the situation?
>> I updated gnome-control-center to 3.22.2-1.
>>
>> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
>> To fix the issue, I downgraded gnome-control-center to 3.22.1-2.
>>
>> * What was the outcome of this action?
>> The Hostpot works as expected.
>>
>> * Other info:
>> sudo journalctl -f /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
>> -- Logs begin at Mon 2017-03-27 21:34:52 EDT. --
>> Mar 27 21:35:54 v131 gnome-control-c[1794]: Failed to save hotspot's
>> settings
>> to disk: 802-11-wireless.ssid: property is missing
>>
>>
>>
>> -- System Information:
>> Debian Release: 9.0
>>   APT prefers stable-updates
>>   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (75, 'stable'),
>> (50, 'unstable')
>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>>
>> Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
>> Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>>
>> Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
>> ii  accountsservice            0.6.43-1
>> ii  apg                        2.2.3.dfsg.1-4+b1
>> ii  colord                     1.3.3-2
>> ii  desktop-file-utils         0.23-1
>> ii  gnome-control-center-data  1:3.22.2-1
>> ii  gnome-desktop3-data        3.22.2-1
>> ii  gnome-settings-daemon      3.22.2-1
>> ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.22.0-1
>> ii  libaccountsservice0        0.6.43-1
>> ii  libatk1.0-0                2.22.0-1
>> ii  libc6                      2.24-9
>> ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.14.8-1
>> ii  libcairo2                  1.14.8-1
>> ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0         0.30-3
>> ii  libcanberra0               0.30-3
>> ii  libcheese-gtk25            3.22.1-1+b1
>> ii  libcheese8                 3.22.1-1+b1
>> ii  libclutter-1.0-0           1.26.0+dfsg-3
>> ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0       1.8.2-1
>> ii  libcolord-gtk1             0.1.26-1.1
>> ii  libcolord2                 1.3.3-2
>> ii  libcups2                   2.2.1-8
>> ii  libfontconfig1             2.11.0-6.7+b1
>> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.36.5-2
>> ii  libglib2.0-0               2.50.3-1
>> ii  libgnome-bluetooth13       3.20.1-1
>> ii  libgnome-desktop-3-12      3.22.2-1
>> ii  libgoa-1.0-0b              3.22.5-1
>> ii  libgoa-backend-1.0-1       3.22.5-1
>> ii  libgrilo-0.3-0             0.3.2-2
>> ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.22.9-4
>> ii  libgtop-2.0-10             2.34.2-1
>> ii  libgudev-1.0-0             230-3
>> ii  libibus-1.0-5              1.5.14-2
>> ii  libkrb5-3                  1.15-1
>> ii  libmm-glib0                1.6.4-1
>> ii  libnm0                     1.6.2-2
>> ii  libnma0                    1.4.4-1
>> ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.40.4-1
>> ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.40.4-1
>> ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0      0.105-17
>> ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0    10.0-1
>> ii  libpulse0                  10.0-1
>> ii  libpwquality1              1.3.0-1+b1
>> ii  libsmbclient               2:4.5.6+dfsg-1
>> ii  libsoup2.4-1               2.56.0-2
>> ii  libupower-glib3            0.99.4-4+b1
>> ii  libwacom2                  0.22-1+b1
>> ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.4-3
>> ii  libxi6                     2:1.7.9-1
>> ii  libxml2                    2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2
>>
>> Versions of packages gnome-control-center recommends:
>> ii  cracklib-runtime              2.9.2-3+b1
>> ii  cups-pk-helper                0.2.6-1+b1
>> ii  gkbd-capplet                  3.22.0.1-1+b1
>> ii  gnome-online-accounts         3.22.5-1
>> ii  gnome-user-guide              3.22.0-1
>> ii  gnome-user-share              3.18.3-1+b1
>> ii  iso-codes                     3.74-1
>> ii  libcanberra-pulse             0.30-3
>> ii  libnss-myhostname             232-19
>> ii  mousetweaks                   3.12.0-1+b1
>> ii  network-manager-gnome         1.4.4-1
>> ii  policykit-1                   0.105-17
>> pn  pulseaudio-module-bluetooth   <none>
>> ii  realmd                        0.16.3-1
>> ii  rygel                         0.32.1-3
>> ii  rygel-tracker                 0.32.1-3
>> ii  system-config-printer-common  1.5.7-3
>>
>> Versions of packages gnome-control-center suggests:
>> ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio  1.10.4-1
>> pn  libcanberra-gtk-module   <none>
>> ii  libcanberra-gtk3-module  0.30-3
>> ii  x11-xserver-utils        7.7+7+b1
>>
>> -- no debconf information
>>
>
> --

Ricardo Ramos
Tel: +244 927 953 770
Email: cesar.rickinho at gmail.com
Website: www.rickinho.com
Técnico de Informática
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