numeric SSID becomes "e" on the connection

[Alejandro Mery]

My work's wifi network is named "101", after connecting the connection gets ssid=e. manually changing /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/101 and using nmcli to connect doesn't work. nm is still seeing it as "e".

later connections to the same network spawn new "101 %d" connections, all with ssid=e and usable one time only.

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: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Fri Oct 14 11:09:01 2011
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.50.1 dev wlan0 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.50.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.50.26 metric 2
 192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.1
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (0 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.NetworkManager.NetworkManager.conf: 2011-10-13T16:53:36.410773

[Dan Williams (dcbw)]

fixed by 965d5860ab35df3df586278dfba80fa89e30029a upstream.

[Alejandro Mery (amery)]

woh, thanks!

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Preparing the package for testing; we'll either merge this in the current SRU up for review or push it right after.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

I uploaded network-manager 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu5~mtrudel~nm1 to my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mathieu-tl/+archive/nm/+sourcepub/2002351/+listing-archive-extra. The package should be built and available in a few hours.

If someone affected wants to start testing *that*, then it will be easier and quicker to get the testing for a SRU once the one currently being tested is accepted.

[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (wxl)]

would check this out but i'm on a ppc. lubuntu 11.10 for what it's worth. i've got a 23 that becomes an end of transmission character. good old unicode U+0017. so the bottom line is the decimal gets translated to hex. thus 101 becomes U+0065, a lower case e. if i can get my intel vm working i'll tell you what i find out. should be an easy fix regardless.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Walter,

You can try to recompile the package on your own by getting the sources from my PPA, it shouldn't be very complicated ;)

[Cavia Porcellus (caviaporcellus)]

I had this same problem running Ubuntu 11.10 (my network, 178, became ²).

Mathieu, I just tried your package and it fixed things perfectly. Thank you.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

I'll upload this to -proposed today, will need another round of testing with that package :)

[Ryan H. (ryanhartkopf)]

The patch worked perfectly for me, thank you to Mathieu for the package.

[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (wxl)]

Added the repo and apt-get install --build succeeded but didn't result in any change. PPC needs some help, obviously.

[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (wxl)]

s/install/source :D

[anil arya (anil-arya)]

How do I get this fix ? Update manager has not included this yet.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Alejandro, or anyone else affected,

Accepted network-manager into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Alejandro Mery (amery)]

I've been using the PPA without any issue. Just enabled the proposed repo, no nm there yet... I hope all these other proposed updated don't kill my pets. :)

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Alejandro, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed, it describes how to use pinning to avoid installing extra packages from proposed. By now AFAICS N-M is built for all but powerpc (sorry, powerpc builds take some extra time).

[Cavia Porcellus (caviaporcellus)]

I'm now using the proposed version of network-manager (0.9.1.90-0ubuntu5). It's working fine.

[ԜаӀtеr Ⅼарсһуnѕkі (wxl)]

PPC is all good now with 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu5. Thanks!

[Alejandro Mery (amery)]

proposed works well for me too. thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package network-manager - 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu5

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network-manager (0.9.1.90-0ubuntu5) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/fix_reading_intlist-like_ssids_965d586.patch: Fix numeric
    SSIDs parsing; if there is no semicolon, except the file is in new format
    (so just a valid, all-nums SSID rather than a integer list). (LP: #874328)
  * debian/patches/lp862134_resolv_conf_updates.patch: don't update routing
    and DNS for unmanaged devices or devices transitioning to unmanaged; in an
    attempt to keep possibly correct resolv.conf contents and routes.
    (LP: #862134)
 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:36:41 -0400