Wireless network notifications queue up and then display at incorrect times

[Max Bowsher]

Binary package hint: notify-osd

If several wireless network connection events happen in a short period of time, or when there is contention for notification display from other applications, the notify-osd can be showing "Wireless network disconnected" when the network is reconnected already - the "connected" notification is queued up behind the "disconnected" one, and will show eventually.

If I had had the presence of mind to take a screenshot at the time, it would show a notify-osd bubble declaring that the network is disconnected on the screen along with the nm-applet icon showing the network to actually be connected.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Dec 30 13:21:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GtkTheme: Human-Clearlooks
IconTheme: Humanity
MachineType: Acer AOA150
Package: notify-osd 0.9.24-0ubuntu2
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SourcePackage: notify-osd
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Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic i686
WindowManager: compiz
XorgConf:
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[Vish (vish)]

It would be ideal if the notification of the connection merged.
[this may be a problem with the nm applet sending the notifications wrong too.]

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 460144, so it 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.

[water911 (water911)]

I am having the same (if not, similar) problem. I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 on a Sony UX-380n Micro PC. The wireless card couldn't even be used in previous versions (at least I don't recall it working at all). However, now I realized I could access Google, which shows it can actually connect.

I am connecting to an old router, but with no problems, as all the operating systems I run on my desktop (which I am using now) can access the router perfectly and quickly. As well, Windows 7 already had drivers for the wireless built into its self and accessed the router without any such issues out of the norm.

I believe the bug this was linked to, since this one fits my description so much more, was indeed a fallacy on the account of its linking.

What happens is that (and I look right now) it pronounces "Wired network Disconnected" constantly without any stop. It occasionally pronounces "Connected to *network name*". Although I can use the computer, it is extremely annoying to have pop-up bubbles come up every...all the time? I hope someone can fix this. In older versions I could not even get it to ask for so much as a WEP key, which it now asks for and uses. Just the same notification problem.

I do not in any way thing the bug/issue linked to this matches and that my problem is unique only pertaining to this issue. They sound almost exactly alike and I would hope someone can fix it.

If I notice that the network is actually connecting and disconnecting or anything related to my problem, I will check back and post it here. This is one of the first annoying computer bugs I think I have come across, since I never recall coming onto a site like this to actually get help. The only other issue is another Linux distro that was badly built crashed constantly...as opposed to Ubuntu which has never crashed and is comparable (with no marks on either side) exactly to Windows 7 (and Vista if your talking about crashing...maybe not common bugs).

Please help, and please unlock/unlink this bug so we can get it working. I searched and couldn't find anything pertaining to my bug.