Same problem here (Mint 14), whenever a secured connection has a weak signal. Of course, the immediate way to avoid waking up to a computer slowed down by hundreds of dialogs is to disable wireless overnight when in the presence of such a network, but that's not a good fix overall.
I agree that if the login information is missing or incorrect then Mathieu's fix is the right thing--just stop trying to connect until the user supplies new information. But in most cases where I have come across this bug the login information is already correct, and the issue is instead (as far as I can tell) that the signal isn't good enough to get it across reliably. In such a case it is preferable to just try again without consulting the user to verify the password. Perhaps if it is hard to implement the "at most one dialog" approach, you could instead add a "don't ask me to authenticate for this network again" flag in the dialog? Ideally, this would turn just the relevant network from Mathieu's behavior (always ask and wait for authentication) to the bad signal behavior (always retry without asking). Of course, there should be a similar flag in the connection preferences (perhaps near "connect automatically") where this option could be unset. -- 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: Confirmed 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
