I'm closing the artful task for update-manager. If update-manager needs
more work to support the connectivity status, I think that should be
split off to a new bug.
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu Artful)
Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu Artful)
Milestone: quantal-updates => None
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/997200
Title:
Add NetworkManager connectivity config package
Status in NetworkManager:
Confirmed
Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in network-manager source package in Precise:
Won't Fix
Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Precise:
Won't Fix
Status in update-manager source package in Precise:
Won't Fix
Status in network-manager source package in Artful:
Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Artful:
Fix Released
Status in update-manager source package in Artful:
Won't Fix
Status in network-manager package in Debian:
Fix Released
Bug description:
How to Disable This Feature
===========================
Option 1
--------
If you are using the default Ubuntu or GNOME, open the Settings app, browse
to Privacy and turn off Network Connectivity Checking.
Option 2
--------
You could also disable it by adding a file to /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/
with this content:
[connectivity]
enabled=false
Then restart NetworkManager or your computer, whichever is easier.
Feature
=======
A separate network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu package that contains
the 2-line config snippet to enable NetworkManager's connectivity check. This
is the same approach taken by Fedora since 2014 (their package is named
network-manager-config-connectivity-fedora).
With this config, GNOME Shell will pop up a browser page when a captive
portal is detected. The browser page is powered by webkit2gtk.
https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.14/#captive-portals
This new feature (and how to opt out) will be mentioned in Ubuntu
17.10's Release Notes.
Enabling the connectivity check by default for all of Ubuntu was discussed
almost 5 years ago:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-July/035490.html
Link to newer discussion:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2017-February/039696.html
Original Bug Report
==================
When in a hotel there is a often a T&Cs page that is delivered when
connecting to the network. Some combination of network manager and update
manager (or something else entirely) doesn't seem to be able to handle this,
and update are left in a non-working state after not being able to read package
headers file.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 9 17:27:02 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
IpRoute:
default via 10.155.32.1 dev wlan0 proto static
10.155.32.0/19 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.155.38.82 metric
2
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
NetworkManager.state:
[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-07 (63 days ago)
nmcli-dev:
DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
wlan0 802-11-wireless connected
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE
WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
running 0.9.4.0 connected enabled enabled
enabled enabled disabled
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