Bug#534401: gnome-network-admin: Network settings do not take effect

[Noah Slater]

Package: gnome-network-admin
Version: 2.22.1-5
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Steps to reproduce:

  * Run network-manager

  * Unlock with superuser password

  * Click the "Wireless connection" section

  * Click the "Properties" button

  * Click "Enable this connection" or unclick "Enable roaming"

  * Fill in the Wireless Settings fieldset

  * Choose "Automatic configuration (DHCP)" in "Connection Settings"

  * Click the "OK" button

What I would expect to see:

  A network connection made via the wireless connection

What I actually see:

  No network connection is made. No error message is given.

  If I close the window and restart the network-manager my settings have been
  lost and I need to enter them again. Saving them as a Location works, but when
  I restart the network-manager this Location is never selected by default.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-network-admin depends on:
ii  gnome-system-tools     2.22.1-5          Cross-platform configuration utili
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.26.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.9-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.6-2+b1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.12-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.80-4            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-4.1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.26.2-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.1-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.16.1-2          The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libiw29                29-1.1            Wireless tools - library
ii  liboobs-1-4            2.22.0-2          GObject based interface to system-
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.0-3+b1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-3             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-3             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

gnome-network-admin recommends no packages.

gnome-network-admin suggests no packages.

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Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater