network-manager suffers from amnesia twice and is high on crack through update to oneiric

Bug #875165 reported by udippel
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network-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I have now updated 4 machines (11.04 to 11.10), and all have lost their WiFi-passwords (at least on KDE). And when I re-enter the WiFi-passwords, they still don't remember. I need to enter the passwords under 'Manage Connections ...' or they will still be lost.
[I know this is much less worse than what other reported about 'no WiFi' after the upgrade, but still ... . It *is* a piece of crap when one has collected some dozen passwords and they are all gone. A mistake.]

Secondly, the display of 'Manage Connections ...' (Configure - KDE Control Module) is on crack. It shows arbitrary values of 'Last Used', like 4 minutes here and now, when I have been online for some hours, and under 'Wired', for example, it shows 'Last Used' as 6 hours, when it didn't even have had a cable (not to mention connection) plugged in for a couple of months.

If (k)ubuntu wants to conquer anything more than a nerds' marketshare, things like this must simply not happen. Not when one upgrades from KDE 4.6 to KDE 4.7, at no cost.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: network-manager 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Sun Oct 16 01:08:27 2011
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100427)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.116.200 dev wlan1 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan1 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.116.0/24 dev wlan1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.116.91 metric 2
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (1 days ago)

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udippel (udippel) wrote :
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sam tygier (samtygier) wrote :

in gnome to it seems unable to remember my wpa key after upgrading. it keeps asking for it.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Thomas Hood (jdthood) wrote :

@udippel: If you can reproduce in Ubuntu 12.04, please file a separate report about the problem of the "Last Used" values being incorrect. This may be a distinct bug.

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