NetworkManager ignores changes to PPP settings

[sw0x2A]

Binary package hint: network-manager-gnome

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

$ apt-cache policy network-manager-gnome
network-manager-gnome:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20081020t000444-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Changes applied to the PPP tab (in Mobile Broadband) in the NetworkManager are ignored. I expected the changed parameters to be set and saved. Instead the changes were ignored. By clicking OK in the NetworkManager, a lot of entries without values are send to gconf.

How to reproduce: Open the NetworkManager, click on tab "Mobile Broadband", click on button "Edit" (a connection must already exists), click on tab "Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)", change something like "Allow TCP header compression" and click on OK. Click on "Edit" again and see the old, unchanged settings.

With gconf-editor (in /system/networking/connections/NUMBER/ppp) one can set the values manually and the next time the tab is opened, the NetworkManager will show the current settings. So settings are read, at least.

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

Thank you for reporting this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better!

I was able to reproduce this issue, following the instructions provided! For this reason, I'm going to mark this report as confirmed!

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

@Stefan: Does this bug still exist in Quantal?

[sw0x2A (sw0x2a)]

I do not know. I am not using Ubuntu anymore. But with my description in the initial bugreport, you should be able to check or reproduce the bug yourself.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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