[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#465338: #465338: network-manager: garbled names in list of networks

[Alban Browaeys]

Package: network-manager
Followup-For: Bug #465338

Just to help user and getting the thing fixed if anybody goes faster
than I (which would not be that hard as I am still looking around
searching for where wpa_supplicant garbles the essid from
drivers/driver_wext.c wpa_driver_wext_get_ssid (called by 
where it looks ok to ctrl_iface_dbus_handlers.c
wpas_dbus_bssid_properties where it is corrupted).
The easiest way to fix the issue is to downgrade the kernel to 2.6.23.
Downgrading anything else changes nothing (tried glib as I upgraded to
2.15 beforehand and wpasupplicant). But the issue looks like it
should be best fixed in wpasupplicant (though the git is offline right
now which does not help in finding out if a fix has already been found,
thus I am trying on my side).
I opened bugs upstream for NetworkManager but not yet for wpasupplicant
(as I don't know yet what the issue is): 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515848
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2008-February/msg00094.html

What weird and that may explains the bug has gone unoticed is that wpasupplicant 
wpa_gui scan shows correct output. Only wpasupplicant dbus output is
corrupted as it seems.
The bug does not affect 0.6.5 as it still uses the socket interface
which is not affected.


Best regards
Alban


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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser     3.105                        add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus        1.1.2-1                      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd      3.0-2                        D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal         0.5.10-5                     Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown    0.6.8                        high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute     20080108-1                   Professional tools to control the 
ii  iputils-arp 3:20071127-1                 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to
ii  libc6       2.7-6                        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3 1.1.2-1                      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-gli 0.74-1                       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11 1.4.0-3                      LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0- 2.15.4-1                     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-erro 1.4-2                        library for common error values an
ii  libhal1     0.5.10-5                     Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29     29-1                         Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1      1.1-1                        Library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0 0.6.5-5                      network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base    3.1-24                       Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  wpasupplica 0.6.2+git20080206.g8c0dad4-1 Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.5-3    network management framework (GNOM

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