No error message when certificate for a configured WLAN is missing

[CaptainPlanet]

Hi,
this is rather an enhancement suggestion than a bug.

I just figured out that if you move a certificate file which is needed for a certain WLAN it just won’t work anymore without a specific message. Would be much easier with a little error message like "CA-Certificate missing" or something like that. Just happened to me. Took a while to fix it.

Thank you

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Thanks CaptainPlanet. Can you be more specific about steps to reproduce the bug? For example, whether you're using Ubuntu on a phone or a PC, what version it is, and where the certificate file was.

It seems to me the simplest approach would be just to put up the auth dialog again, so that you can re-select the certificate in its new location.

[CaptainPlanet (captainplanet)]

Hi Matthew,
thank you for your response. Here’s my configuration:

Xubuntu 14.04 LTS
Lenovo Thinkpad T61

The certificate was in the home directory and I moved into /home/documents.

I already fixed the problem as you described. I just did not remember this may be the problem at first. So this report is more like suggestion than a bug. Before I selected the certificates new location the network tried to connect to the WLAN but failed without error message so I did not know what the actual problem was.

Hope I expressed myself clearly. Do you need any more information?

Bye

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

That explains it well, thank you.

When I said "just to put up the auth dialog again", I meant that Ubuntu should do that when authentication fails because of the missing certificate. Just as it would if the network password changed, for example.

[CaptainPlanet (captainplanet)]

Ahh, understand. Good idea!