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Bug 763442 - User-visible warning if dnsmasq is not installed
User-visible warning if dnsmasq is not installed
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: general
1.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: NetworkManager maintainer(s)
NetworkManager maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-03-10 10:01 UTC by Elvis Angelaccio
Modified: 2020-11-12 14:26 UTC
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Description Elvis Angelaccio 2016-03-10 10:01:09 UTC 
dnsmasq is required in order to share an ethernet connection via Wi-Fi.
If dnsmasq is not installed and the user attemps to share a connection, an error message is written to journalctl logs, about the missing dnsmasq.

This is fine, however it would be nice if the same error message could also be reported as a "user-visible" message, so that the Network-Manager applets (such as the one in KDE Plasma desktop) can report this error to the user.

Downstream bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360257
Comment 1 Thomas Haller 2016-05-10 20:13:46 UTC 
A valid request, however in general it's not easy to propagate failure reasons from the server to the (multitude) of clients running in user-sessions.

Like, "warning" users in the UI when something happens in the background...
Comment 2 André Klapper 2020-11-12 14:26:04 UTC 
bugzilla.gnome.org is being shut down in favor of a GitLab instance. 
We are closing all old bug reports and feature requests in GNOME Bugzilla which have not seen updates for a long time.

If you still use NetworkManager and if you still see this bug / want this feature in a recent and supported version of NetworkManager, then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/

Thank you for creating this report and we are sorry it could not be implemented (workforce and time is unfortunately limited).