Setting a mobile broadband connection to available to all users duplicates it.

[Vin Shankar]

Binary package hint: network-manager

If the nm-applet is right-clicked to edit connections, and a mobile broadband connection is edited so that it is available to all users, then rather than adjust the existing connection, the network manager adds a second one with identical name and settings, available to all users. The original connection is still present, but it redundant and may confuse users. Interestingly, setting this single-user connection to available to all again replaces the duplicate rather than creating another. Deleting the original connection does not impact the ability to use the duplicate.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please open a terminal and execute: apport-collect 414853 ? It will attach the necessary information to this report. Also you can submit more information for it by looking to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingNetworkManager , Thanks in advance.

[Michael Lazarev (milaz)]

I'm currently testing Karmic Beta with latest updates from http://ppa.launchpad.net/network-manager/trunk/ubuntu because network-manager applet just didn't work if installed from the disk. I think this bug is quite reproducible:

1. Make a USB startup disk with some space to store setting on it.
2. Boot from it on the first computer with LAN adapter. There will be "Auto eth0" connection.
3. Boot from it on another computer. There will appear "Auto eth1" connection.
3. Try to rename Auto eth0 to "home" or something.
4. Try to rename Auto eth1 to "office"
5. Finally, you will have duplicates of one or more connections on a list.

Once trying to rename Auto eth0, eth1, and eth2 to "Home", "Office" and "Emercom", I got "Home", "Office", "Emercom", "Auto eth0" and "Auto eth1" on a list. If I remember correctly, the last two appeared at once when I renamed the last connection.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

there were a few bug fixes after beta wrt to connection-editor. can you try with all packages up to date in karmic?

[Michael Lazarev (milaz)]

I did. I reported this bug just after encountering it several minutes
ago with the latest updates from edge.launchpad.net

[Michael Lazarev (milaz)]

I just updated again, and can confirm that this bug is still there.
If this helps, there's another sequence of actions:

1. I already have "Office-GMC, Office-R and Office-Marina" connections.
2. When I booted with live USB on another computer, "auto eth2" appeared.
3. I renamed it to "Home". And got what is on 01.png
4. I closed the window and opened it again. I got what is depicted on 02.png

Something very wrong happens to the model of this GtkTreeView on update.

I also noticed that authentication dialog appearing on change behaves
strangely, it doesn't close itself when pressing Apply button, I have
to close it with [x] on the titlebar of it's window. But this may be
another bug.