NetworkManager itself appears to be resetting the number of retries for *all* "failed" connections regardless of what the cause for failure was, even if that failure was caused by missing secrets (what seems to be causing the prompt for entering the password again).
Now, this particular issue can come from buggy drivers which would pass the secret wrong or otherwise fail to connect to an access-point with an unusual or plain incorrect return code. We can't really account for these without special casing each driver. However, I was able to reproduce the issue and write a patch that seems to properly fix the authentication cases where the password in "incorrect" in NM or otherwise refused by the AP. When a connection fails because of missing secrets (e.g the user was prompted but never answered), the connection is properly marked as failed; then, after 5 minutes the connections that are failed because of "missing secrets" don't have their retries set back to 0 like the other failed connections, but rather will wait until an agent registers, at they should. There is a test package being built at https://launchpad.net/~mathieu- tl/+archive/ppa/+sourcepub/3776171/+listing-archive-extra (my PPA). Please give it a shot and let me know if this fixes the issue acceptably. ** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Triaged ** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl) -- 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/912702 Title: [MASTER] Endlessly many "Wireless Network Authentication Required" dialogs put up Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Fix Released Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: New Status in NetworkManager: Unknown Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I left the computer turned on for the night and in the morning I found not less than 65, yes 65!!!!!! instances of the same window. my system was responding very slowly. and closing one took more than a minute, so I had to kill it manually. take a look on my screenshots, they look really weird. this is very annoying!!!! solution: this window shouldn't pop up when the previous one was not closed! ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: network-manager-gnome 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Date: Fri Jan 6 11:38:28 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nm-applet Gconf: IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2) IpRoute: default via 158.195.192.1 dev eth0 proto static 158.195.192.0/19 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 158.195.196.69 metric 1 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SourcePackage: network-manager-applet UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/912702/+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
