Hidden WiFi does not automatically connect on startup

Bug #1875101 reported by Dustin Nisbet-Jones
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
network-manager (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Lenovo ThinkPad T430

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

When starting Ubuntu 20.04 LTS from cold boot or reboot, hidden WiFi networks do not automatically connect despite having this option selected.
This is new to 20.04 and did not exist in 18.04.

Waking from suspend does not have this issue.
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-25 (579 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.0.1 dev wlp3s0 proto dhcp metric 600
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlp3s0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.0.0/24 dev wlp3s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.12 metric 600
Package: network-manager-applet (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-26.30-generic 5.4.30
Tags: focal
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-19 (6 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
nmcli-dev:
 DEVICE TYPE STATE IP4-CONNECTIVITY IP6-CONNECTIVITY DBUS-PATH CONNECTION CON-UUID CON-PATH
 wlp3s0 wifi connected full limited /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/3 Pandanet 9254f39c-f7a5-4542-adda-599069bfd65d /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/3
 enp0s25 ethernet unavailable none none /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/2 -- -- --
 lo loopback unmanaged unknown unknown /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 -- -- --
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE STARTUP CONNECTIVITY NETWORKING WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN
 running 1.22.10 connected started full enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled

description: updated
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Chris Guiver (guiverc) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command only once, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

apport-collect 1875101

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

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Dustin Nisbet-Jones (d.nisbetjones) wrote : CRDA.txt

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tags: added: apport-collected focal
description: updated
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Dustin Nisbet-Jones (d.nisbetjones) wrote : IpAddr.txt

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Dustin Nisbet-Jones (d.nisbetjones) wrote : IwConfig.txt

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Dustin Nisbet-Jones (d.nisbetjones) wrote : NetDevice.enp0s25.txt

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Dustin Nisbet-Jones (d.nisbetjones) wrote : NetDevice.lo.txt

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Dustin Nisbet-Jones (d.nisbetjones) wrote : NetDevice.wlp3s0.txt

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Dustin Nisbet-Jones (d.nisbetjones) wrote : NetworkManager.conf.txt

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Dustin Nisbet-Jones (d.nisbetjones) wrote : PciNetwork.txt

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Dustin Nisbet-Jones (d.nisbetjones) wrote : ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt

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Dustin Nisbet-Jones (d.nisbetjones) wrote : ProcEnviron.txt

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Dustin Nisbet-Jones (d.nisbetjones) wrote : RfKill.txt

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Dustin Nisbet-Jones (d.nisbetjones) wrote : WifiSyslog.txt

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Dustin Nisbet-Jones (d.nisbetjones) wrote : nmcli-con.txt

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. could you maybe report it upstream on https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues ?

affects: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) → network-manager (Ubuntu)
Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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