Network manager shows too many windows on gnome shell

[dmiranda]

When connection goes down and network manager cannot reconnect its start openning passwords windows, after some minutes there is hundreds of windows opened.

I have this problem with two different computers, both using gnome shell

(see attachment for a small example with 11 windows )

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.21-generic 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 4 13:21:02 2012
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.5 metric 2
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
RfKill:
 4: phy4: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-23 (11 days ago)
nmcli-con:
 NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH
 Paloma - automática 09266f50-158d-4221-b736-5ed34f4ace50 802-11-wireless 1328358583 Sáb 04 Fev 2012 10:29:43 BRST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/2
 daniel.miranda - automática 36e8a009-5990-4b9d-9470-2a0389c861c8 802-11-wireless 0 never yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0
 Wired connection 1 c9e26307-96f5-4e2a-b807-c91b49d72e95 802-3-ethernet 1328093242 Qua 01 Fev 2012 08:47:22 BRST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/4
 Android - automática 063f8785-d7f7-4470-bbb8-ff2944f15fd0 802-11-wireless 1315781666 Dom 11 Set 2011 19:54:26 BRT yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/3
nmcli-dev:
 DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
 eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
 wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/5
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
 running 0.9.3.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

This is most likely a duplicate of another bug; just need to put them all back together ;)

This is a known issue with network connections when the passphrase is not accepted by the remote system; after a rescan the connection will be auto-activated again.

[Oliver Fenton (oliver-fenton)]

Can anyone suggest an easy way to close all the windows in one go as a workaround for now?

[Daniel O'Connor (daniel-oconnor)]

"This is a known issue with network connections when the passphrase is not accepted by the remote system; after a rescan the connection will be auto-activated again."

wrt auto-activation, would simply looking for an existing nm-applet authentication prompt being displayed for that connection + credential set and focusing on that (or notifying) be a simple way to reduce the number of windows?

and for finding the original, any suggestions on where to look?