Ubiquity no longer prompts to join available WiFi networks

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

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1572793

Hi Martin, I can't answer on irc, but I read it (irclogs.ubuntu FTW).

What is exactly the issue? I see "video screwed up", I see no applet, but I don't understand how can it be a virtualbox fault.

For the video you can try:
dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-guest-dkms, and remove (optionally) the xserver-xorg-legacy package (useless with 5.0.18 driver).

the problem might be that you are hitting LP: #1571156 bug.

What do you mean "prompting"? Do you have the nm-applet and can use it to connect?

Hello Martin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ubiquity into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/2.21.63.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 16.10.1

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ubiquity (16.10.1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * misc.py: Ask for the 'State' property instead of 'state'. Fixes display
    of wireless page. (LP: #1572793)

  [ Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre ]
  * Abitrary version number change.
  * Move sources to yakkety.
  * Automatic update of included source packages: choose-mirror
    2.65ubuntu7, console-setup 1.142ubuntu1, preseed 1.71ubuntu2.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:28:50 -0400

Confirmed this fix in the proposed packaged, everything seems shiny.

I confirmed that after an OEM install, enabling proposed, updating, and finally clicking "Prepare for shipping to user", Ubiquity behaves as expected during the first-run user config:

1) When not connected to Ethernet and you have WiFi hardware available, Ubiquity again prompts you to join a WiFi network, and if you do, ubi-timezone will correctly guess your timezone

2) When connected to Ethernet, Ubiquity will not prompt you to join a WiFi network, and ubi-timezone will use the Ethernet connection to guess your timezone

3) When not connected to Ethernet and you decline to join a WiFi network, Ubiquity still works as expected (but ubi-timezone understandably can't guess your timezone)

Only thing I can't test is a fresh install as that can't really be done properly without a remastered ISO. But as this fix really matters for OEM installs and eventually for the 16.04.1 ISOs, I feel it's safe to mark this as "verification-done".

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.21.63.1

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ubiquity (2.21.63.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * misc.py: Ask for the 'State' property instead of 'state'. Fixes display
    of wireless page. (LP: #1572793)

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:40:33 -0400

The verification of the Stable Release Update for ubiquity has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.