APN editor: Selected APN states don't persist on exit and re-entry

[Marcus Tomlinson]

If I change the currently selected APN in either the internet or MMS lists, then hit 'back' and re-enter the APN page again, the selections are reverted to their initial states.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

To reproduce:

1. Open APN page
2. Select "Custom" from the Internet APN list
3. Enter data to the fields
4. Hit "Activate"
5. Select "Custom" from the MMS APN list
6. Enter data to the fields
7. Hit "Save"
8. Select anything other than "Custom" from the Internet APN list
9. Select anything other than "Custom" from the MMS APN list
10. Exit APN page
11. Open APN page

"Custom" is selected for both Internet and MMS APNs and not the APNs selected in steps 8 and 9.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

There isn't sufficient information in this bug to reproduce.

First, what device and image were used? As the bug is against ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu), I'm assuming it was a vivid image?

Second, the Internet and MMS APNs have slightly different use cases, and hence they behave differently.

When an Internet APN is selected from the list, NetworkManager attempts to activate it. If this activation fails, it will try the other Internet APNs until one connects. So when visiting the APN page, the Internet APN shown with the checkmark will be the active APN.

MMS APNs ( if 'same as Internet' isn't checked ) are dynamically activated on demand by nuntium ( or MMS daemon ), so as long as the Custom settings persist, things should be OK.

If you can still reproduce this behavior, please do so and provide more details ( ie. were the APNs provisioned correct, what did you enter for Custom APNs, ... ).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that dialog got redesigned, please check if that's still an issue and open a new bug/reopen this one with an updated description if that's the case