Network Manager doesn't use saved WPA2 password

[Ian Redfern]

Binary package hint: network-manager-gnome

Just upgraded to Intrepid, running 0.7~~svn20080907t033843-0ubuntu2.

Each time I start up, I get the Network Manager WPA2 password dialogue box. When I enter the password, it then connects correctly, but doesn't remember it.

I have only one keyring - login - and other passwords from that keyring work fine.

This worked without problems on Hardy.

Log messages:

Sep 19 09:44:35 betty NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Sep 19 09:44:35 betty NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
Sep 19 09:44:35 betty NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 4 -> 5
Sep 19 09:44:35 betty NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): access point 'Auto WLAN' has security, but secrets are required.
Sep 19 09:44:35 betty NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 5 -> 6
Sep 19 09:44:35 betty NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
Sep 19 09:44:36 betty NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 2 -> 1

When I use nm-connection-editor, it shows the password field as blank. When I enter a value and press OK, it accepts it, but when I click on Edit again, it writes

** (nm-connection-editor:12364): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wireless Security: Invalid wireless security

to the console as though the password were blank - which of course it now displays it as. When I look at the key with Seahorse, it's fine. The key is 24 chars, all alphanumeric; I've tried setting shorter keys, but that makes no difference.

[Dan Andreșan (danyer)]

same here, although I triggered it somehow:

It was working OK (upgraded from hardy 2 months ago). Then I played with Application|Accesories|Passwords and Encryptions Key where I saw that the password was written twice (under different but somehow similar headings).
I removed them both, and network manager/applet/whatever asked me about the password. It works, but it keeps forgetting it and, as the bug reporter said, the password field in the connections editor is empty.

Please ask for more info if needed, thanks.