Plus nm-applet really shouldn't segfault because it can't find the binary. I was away from network connectivity (as you usually are when you try to ad-hoc, otherwise you'd just both connect to the infrastructure) when I tried this a couple of days ago.
Thankfully we are both experienced sysadmins who were happy to go nuke the network-manager processes and iwconfig/ifconfig ourselves. Left a pretty sour taste seeing nm-applet crash and disappear. Dec 28 19:06:15 launde NetworkManager: <WARN> start_sharing(): (wlan0): failed to start dnsmasq: Could not find dnsmasq binary. I ran nm-applet from the command line and it actually segfaulted when it couldn't find dnsmasq. It definitely needs to fail gracefully. -- [intrepid] network-manager should recommend or suggest dnsmasq https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269963 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
