network-manager does ignore the saved network-secret and asks for authentication every startup

[BeowulfOF]

beowulf@seashell:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
beowulf@seashell:~$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installiert: 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu4
  Kandidat: 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu4
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.9.1.90-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages

Every time i log on/ wake up from suspend, Network-manager asks for my network keyword, although it is stored and worked fine until the upgrade to 11.10.

I also filed Bug #874920 because Evolution showed up with the same failure, but does not any more. So only network manager seems to be unable to read the secret till now.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: network-manager 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Date: Sat Oct 22 11:35:45 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64+mac (20110413)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.81.254 dev wlan0 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.81.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.81.100 metric 2
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-23 (29 days ago)

[Gunter Ohrner (gohrner)]

Do you use GNOME's nm-applet or KDE's Plasma-widget? I see the same problem with the following packages:

network-manager 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu4
plasma-widget-networkmanagement 0.9~svngit.nm09.20110610.0c83d8-0ubuntu5

which makes Plasma-NM more or less useless as I need to connect to quite a few networks with passwords you simply *cannot* remember...

[BeowulfOF (beowulfof)]

I do use the default network-manager in unity, which i belive is the gnome-applet.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Have you tried editing the connection, and setting it to "Available to all users" if it's not already the case? This is known to help, and if it's the case then likely you "just" encountered an issue in the migration of the connections when upgrading.

[BeowulfOF (beowulfof)]

Just looked over it.

It is set to auto-connect, the checkbox to make it available to all users is not enabled, so i cannot change it to that. Definetly I created that connection with the same user on the previous system, then upgraded the system. Maybe theres the dragon hidden, during the upgrade went the information lost, that it this connection-secret is stored in this users keyring?

[Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti)]

I suspect that this is the same as bug #854833.
What's the policy, should I mark it as duplicate or wait for some developer to do it?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for network-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]