NFI, I haven't used Ubuntu for a good year now. The fact that there haven't been any recent "affects me too" additions and there's been no comment activity suggests it's probably gone into the mists of wherever unloved bugs go to die.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567268 Title: NetworkManager leaves garbage in essid after disconnect Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: network-manager NetworkManager appears to fill the essid with garbage when it disconnects from a network as part of disabling networking (ie: right click on nm applet, uncheck "enable networking"). craig@ayaki:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch) Release: 10.04 Codename: lucid craig@ayaki:~$ apt-cache policy network-manager network-manager: Installed: 0.8-0ubuntu3 Candidate: 0.8-0ubuntu3 Version table: *** 0.8-0ubuntu3 0 500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages 500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status craig@ayaki:~$ uname -a Linux ayaki 2.6.32-20-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 9 20:35:55 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux While connected to wifi, as normal: root@ayaki:~# iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"madradish" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:12:BF:09:E1:76 Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=14 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:3132-3334-35 Power Management:off Link Quality=42/70 Signal level=-68 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 After disconnection, note the garbage essid: root@ayaki:~# iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"p\xE9>\xA1A\xE1\xFCg>\x01~\x97\xEA\xDCk\x96\x8F8\*\xEC\xB0;\xFB2\xAF<T\xEC\x18\xDB\" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=14 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off I never noticed this before upgrading to lucid (pre) and therefore from NM 0.7 to NM 0.8 . While that doesn't mean it wasn't happening, I tend to use iwconfig and would expect to have noticed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/567268/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
