Ubuntu
network-manager package

Network selection menu shows a different wireless signal strength than the menu bar, so one is wrong.

Bug #1856463 reported by Seija K. on 2019-12-15

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	network-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When I noticed the Menu bar showed a medium connection strength, I opened up the network menu in Settings. Settings showed a strong connection strength.

This inconsistency is a bug in itself and one of the two are wrong. You can see both the menu bar and system settings claiming two different strengths if you look at their icons in the attached screenshots.

I expect the system settings and the menu bar to be consistent on wi-fi strength

However, in actuality, one is claiming a medium strength connection, the other a stronger one, for the same network, which is NETGEAR18.

Because I am unsure of what is actually correct, I filed this under the network manager messing up. Network manager, the menu bar, and system settings appear to be out of sync.

I reported this bug as soon as it happened.

Description: Ubuntu 19.10
Release: 19.10

network-manager:
  Installed: 1.20.4-2ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.20.4-2ubuntu2
  Version table:
*** 1.20.4-2ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: network-manager 1.20.4-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-24.26-generic 5.3.10
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Dec 15 11:38:18 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-20 (24 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlp2s0 proto dhcp metric 600
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlp2s0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.1.0/24 dev wlp2s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.39 metric 600
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2019-11-27T12:43:30.211160
nmcli-nm:
RUNNING VERSION STATE STARTUP CONNECTIVITY NETWORKING WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN
running 1.20.4 connected started full enabled enabled enabled enabled enabled
---
ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
DisplayManager: gdm3
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-20 (25 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
Package: gnome-shell 3.34.1+git20191024-1ubuntu1~19.10.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-24.26-generic 5.3.10
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.34.1+git20191107-1ubuntu1~19.10.1
Tags: eoan
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-24-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

_MarkForUpload: True
mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2019-11-27T12:43:30.211160
---
ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-20 (25 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.34.1-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-24.26-generic 5.3.10
Tags: eoan
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-24-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

_MarkForUpload: True
mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2019-11-27T12:43:30.211160

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