connection to WiFi stalls for about a minute due to an expired password
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| network-manager (Ubuntu) |
New
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Bug Description
Observed:
My company password regularly expires, so I have to change it. The same password is used for the company WiFi. The next time I connect to the company WiFi, NetworkManager tries to connect and is just stuck for a rather long time (about a minute?). While it's trying to connect, settings for that WiFi connection are not accessible. Eventually it stops trying to connect and only then can I access the settings to change the password.
Expected:
I would expect NetworkManager to detect that the WiFi signal is strong, but the password is wrong and that it gives up trying within 5s, maybe 10s at most. (It would also be nice if settings for that connection were accessible while it's connecting so that I can already update it while I'm waiting for the connection attempt to stop.)
Alternatively, an "abort" button might be nice to interrupt the connection attempt.
Repeatability:
This happens every time my password changes.
Workarounds:
I can switch WiFi off and on again, but then I still have to wait for NetworkManager to populate the list of WiFi networks. It's faster than waiting for the timeout, but it seems a bit clumsy.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: network-manager 1.22.10-1ubuntu2.4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-192-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Aug 21 09:30:25 2024
DistributionCha
# This is a distribution channel descriptor
# For more information see http://
canonical-
IfupdownConfig:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-10 (2294 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20160624-10:47
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.210.254 dev wlp2s0 proto dhcp metric 600
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlp2s0 scope link metric 1000
172.17.0.0/16 dev docker0 proto kernel scope link src 172.17.0.1 linkdown
192.168.210.0/24 dev wlp2s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.210.73 metric 600
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2023-10-02 (323 days ago)
WifiSyslog:
mtime.conffile.
nmcli-nm:
RUNNING VERSION STATE STARTUP CONNECTIVITY NETWORKING WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN
running 1.22.10 connected started full enabled enabled enabled enabled enabled
| Tomislav (hefest) wrote | #1 |
