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network-manager package

nmtui and nmcli doesn't read wifi password from config files

Bug #2065346 reported by QkiZ on 2024-05-09

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This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

When using KDE Network Manager I can connect to wifi networks without problems. The problem appears when I want to connect to saved networks by tools like nmtui and nmcli. Both these tools can see saved networks but when I want to connect to these networks nmtui asks for a password and nmcli displays an error that the password isn't in config files.
How to reproduce this problem:
1. Add network in Network Manager by GUI (KDE or Gnome).
2. Switch to virtual console (ctrl+alt+fx)
3. Use nmtui to connect to the saved network or use nmcli connection up <ssid> command.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: network-manager 1.46.0-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-31.31.1-lowlatency 6.8.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Thu May 9 23:42:18 2024
NetworkManager.state:
[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=false
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2024-05-04 (5 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.default.apport:
# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
# you can temporarily override this with
# sudo service apport start force_start=1
enabled=0
mtime.conffile..etc.NetworkManager.NetworkManager.conf: 2024-03-17T12:22:48.566988
mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2018-10-22T20:30:51
nmcli-nm:
RUNNING VERSION STATE STARTUP CONNECTIVITY NETWORKING WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN
running 1.46.0 connected started full enabled enabled enabled missing disabled

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QkiZ (qkiz) wrote on 2024-05-09:

#1

CRDA.txt Edit (5.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (6.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IfupdownConfig.txt Edit (220 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IpAddr.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IpRoute.txt Edit (598 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IwConfig.txt Edit (753 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.docker0.txt Edit (496 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.enp3s0.txt Edit (1014 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.lo.txt Edit (208 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.lxcbr0.txt Edit (490 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.mpqemubr0.txt Edit (508 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.virbr0.txt Edit (490 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.vmnet1.txt Edit (528 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.vmnet8.txt Edit (528 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetDevice.wlp5s0.txt Edit (1012 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
NetworkManager.conf.txt Edit (148 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciNetwork.txt Edit (6.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (300 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RfKill.txt Edit (112 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (132.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
modified.conffile..etc.NetworkManager.NetworkManager.conf.txt Edit (149 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
nmcli-con.txt Edit (8.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
nmcli-dev.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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QkiZ (qkiz) wrote on 2024-05-24:

#2

anyone?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2024-05-27:

#3

Thank you for your bug report. Could you do 'journalctl -f', try to connect to a wifi using one of those utility and see if any error is logged? It's working fine here on a Ubuntu/GNOME system

Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Incomplete

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QkiZ (qkiz) wrote on 2024-05-27:

#4

nmtui.log Edit (428.7 KiB, text/plain)

Here is a journal log for connecting to the "digital-net-ac" wifi network.

Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → New

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QkiZ (qkiz) wrote on 2024-05-27:

#5

Password for "digital-net-ac" wifi network is saved only for my user in Network Manager.

https://image.qkiz.pl/di/RB4O/Screenshot_20240527_174243.png

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2024-05-27:

#6

The log also has
device (wlp5s0): no secrets: No agents were available for this request.

Could be that KDE is missing an agent, would be worth trying under a GNOME session if you see the same behaviour

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QkiZ (qkiz) wrote on 2024-05-28 (last edit on 2024-05-28):

#7

As I wrote in the bug description I used a virtual console (Ctrl+alt+F3) to run nmtui or nmcli. There was no graphical environment. I tested it also in KDE Konsole and it works the same: asks for a password. I will install Gnome today and test how it works there.

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QkiZ (qkiz) wrote on 2024-05-28:

#8

nmtui.log Edit (1.1 MiB, text/plain)

Same problem in Gnome. nmtui keeps asking for a password, even if the network is saved in Gnome Network Manager. Logs in attachment.

Screenshot of nmtui
https://image.qkiz.pl/di/Q1IZ/nmtui.png

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