network-manager does not find system wide configurations

[Hadmut Danisch]

Binary package hint: network-manager

Hi,

on one of my machines I run into the problem that network-manager does not find system wide configurations.

I can enter system wide configurations, but then network-manager does not use them, and if I run nm-connection-editor again, it does not list the configuration as existing, although the file exists in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections

Unfortunately, documentation is poor about where to start debugging or how nm-connection-editor should find system-wide configurations. Did not find anything useful with dbus-monitor. Any idea where to start with debugging?

regards

[Hadmut Danisch (hadmut)]

I got a littel bit further. Wrote a little program to query the configurations through dbus. nm-system-settings does not provide a single wireless connection. When trying to use the nm-connection-editor from command line, it reports

WARNING Unknown setting '802-11-wireless'
... unhandled connection type
... Can't add new connection of type '802-11-wireless'

[Hadmut Danisch (hadmut)]

Although not familiar with dbus, I wrote a little debug script to read the system wide configurations over dbus.

On some of my computers, it lists the system wide connections from /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections.

But on others of my machines it just returns an empty list, ignoring the configurations.

I did not yet find a reason why it works on some and does not work on other computers.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release the Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.