Public bug reported: (all on hoary with gnome-system-tools 1.2.0-0ubuntu1, possibly the bugs are upstream bugs)
When i configure multiple locations in network-admin (System -> Administration -> Networking), it seems to save certain data to all locations when i select a location. For example, i have a location 'home' in which i configure interface 'ath0' to be configured and active. Interface eth0 is not configured, and disabled. I also have a profile called 'work' where ath0 is not configured and not active, and eth0 is configured and active. After selecting a location, somehow the interface settings of all profiles get saved to the selected profile. /etc/gnome-system-tools/network/profiles.xml seems to confirm my symptoms (<enabled> , <key> and <essid> are all set to the same values for every location/profile) Other annoying bits: - on boot, ubuntu seems to select the last-used profile. But when i boot, i am most probably at a different location than i was before, so actually, there should be a 'default' location which is always used (in my case i'd disable all interfaces, and select a location after booting) - Changes to locations/interfaces seem to be applied when 1) a different location is selected, 2) settings of an interface are changed and 3) after closing network-admin. IMHO network-admin should have a button 'apply', or a 'cancel' button when changing profiles, so it'd not reset the network after each action (because you can't cancel the current network changes, you can't change the settings either, until the changes time out, in case of wrong network settings). - Together with bug 6802 [https://launchpad.net/malone/bugtrackers/ubuntu-bugzilla/6802] and bug 6882 [https://launchpad.net/malone/bugtrackers/ubuntu-bugzilla/6882] this makes network-admin quite unusable on laptops... ** Affects: gst (upstream) Importance: Unknown Status: Confirmed ** Affects: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium Assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Confirmed -- network-admin locations do not get saved correctly https://launchpad.net/bugs/13727 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
