nm-connection-editor assert failure: ERROR:nm-connection-editor.c:207:connection_editor_validate: assertion failed: (s_con)

[David Coggins]

I attempted to create a new mobile broadband connection to Optus Australia through my Samsung Z230 phone connected via USB to my Asus EEE PC running Karmic with the latest updates. A popup box appear saying there was a dbus error. I then tried to edit the connection that was partially created when this crashed happened. At the time the crash happened another tiny popup box appear saying I had insufficient privleges even though I had just entered my root password. Previously in bug 449243 I had been able to create a connection last week but then the connection had failed to connect to Optus. On another computer running Jaunty I can connect to Optus through this phone using Network Manager with no problems so there appears to be a regression in network manager or modem manager for mobile broadband connections.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: ERROR:nm-connection-editor.c:207:connection_editor_validate: assertion failed: (s_con)
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Thu Oct 15 18:38:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor
Gconf:

IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.2 metric 1
 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.3 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto static
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8~a~git.20091014t134532.4033e62-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdline: nm-connection-editor
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.46-generic
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 g_assertion_message () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 g_assertion_message_expr () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Title: nm-connection-editor assert failure: ERROR:nm-connection-editor.c:207:connection_editor_validate: assertion failed: (s_con)
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #445951, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.