Unassigning: there's work needed to be done upstream, that's been being
thought of for a while now, but not yet implemented; to avoid asking for
the password repeatedly.
NetworkManager by itself won't go on a new network you've never
connected to before and ask for the password; this may happen only when
roaming to a similarly named network that has different security
settings. Unfortunately, figuring out that this is the case isn't
simple.
As another possibility, if you've already been on that network and you
think the password is the same, maybe there was an issue migrating GConf
keys from 0.8 to 0.9 in Oneiric. You may want to try setting "Available
to all users" on that connection if it's not already set.
Since there's rather important changes needed to implement this
upstream, I'll unassign myself and we'll revisit this issue after
Precise.
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl) => (unassigned)
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Triaged
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/923737
Title:
Network manager displays multiple duplicate authorization dialogs
Status in NetworkManager:
New
Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
My computer was sitting idle but on for 2 days. The machine is set to
lock the screen after inactivity; the screen was locked for most of
this time. When I returned to the machine and unlocked the screen, I
had *82* (I counted...) identical "Authorization required...." dialogs
onscreen (see attached screenshot). Each dialog contained a request to
connect to a network that I had previously connected to. Each request
was for the same network - n-m was asking about the same network 82
times, not asking to connect to 82 different networks.
I have observed the same or similar behavior in in 11.10: When roaming
to a new network, network-manager finds a new network then asks for
permission to connect to it, even if you've already connected to that
network in the past. If you do not answer the prompt, network-manager
displays a new prompt after a minute or two. I believe this is a
result of scanning for networks while not associated - n-m seems to
put up a new dialog if (a) it's not associated and (b) it finds a
network to connect to. This happens regardless of whether a dialog is
already onscreen. network-manager should avoid throwing up an
authorization dialog if a dialog is already onscreen.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: network-manager 0.9.2.0+git201201101813.0b30200-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-10.18-generic 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 30 08:55:14 2012
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
IpRoute:
default via 10.0.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static
10.0.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.1.22 metric 2
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
NetworkManager.state:
[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
RfKill:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-26 (3 days ago)
nmcli-dev:
DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
wlan0 802-11-wireless connected
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
eth1 802-3-ethernet unavailable
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
nmcli-nm:
RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE
WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
running 0.9.3.0 connected enabled enabled
enabled enabled enabled
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