[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#460828: network-manager: Odd behaviour for wpa authentication

[alberto maurizi]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.5-4
Severity: important

When connecting to a WPA2 encripted AP, for which a valid key is stored
bey keyring manager, it asks for the encription key anyway, several
times, before managing to connect.

Here is an excerpt from syslog:
Jan 13 16:13:25 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Updating allowed wireless network lists. 
Jan 13 16:13:26 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  SWITCH: no current connection, found better connection 'eth2'. 
Jan 13 16:13:26 krsna dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth2 for sub-path eth2.dbus.get.reason
Jan 13 16:13:26 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Will activate connection 'eth2/augh.net'. 
Jan 13 16:13:26 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Device eth2 activation scheduled... 
Jan 13 16:13:26 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) started... 
Jan 13 16:13:26 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled... 
Jan 13 16:13:26 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started... 
Jan 13 16:13:26 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled... 
Jan 13 16:13:26 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete. 
Jan 13 16:13:26 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting... 
Jan 13 16:13:26 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2/wireless): access point 'augh.net' is encrypted, but NO valid key exists.  New key needed. 
Jan 13 16:13:26 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) New wireless user key requested for network 'augh.net'. 
Jan 13 16:13:26 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete. 
Jan 13 16:13:26 krsna kernel: eth2: no IPv6 routers present
Jan 13 16:13:30 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) New wireless user key for network 'augh.net' received. 
Jan 13 16:13:30 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled... 
Jan 13 16:13:30 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started... 
Jan 13 16:13:30 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled... 
Jan 13 16:13:30 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete. 
Jan 13 16:13:30 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting... 
Jan 13 16:13:30 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2/wireless): access point 'augh.net' is encrypted, and a key exists.  No new key needed. 
Jan 13 16:13:34 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: sending command 'INTERFACE_ADD eth2^I^Iwext^I/var/run/wpa_supplicant^I' 
Jan 13 16:13:34 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  SUP: response was 'OK' 
Jan 13 16:13:34 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Error opening control interface to supplicant. 
Jan 13 16:13:34 krsna NetworkManager: <WARN>  real_act_stage2_config(): Activation (eth2/wireless): couldn't connect to the supplicant. 
Jan 13 16:13:34 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) failure scheduled... 
Jan 13 16:13:34 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete. 
Jan 13 16:13:34 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) failed for access point (augh.net) 
Jan 13 16:13:34 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth2) failed. 
Jan 13 16:13:34 krsna NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device eth2. 



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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-duo (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.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              20071016-3          Professional tools to control the 
ii  iputils-arping       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-glib-1-2     0.74-1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11          1.4.0-3             LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.14.4-2            The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0        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-pre8          1.0~pre8-1          Library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0          0.6.5-4             network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base             3.1-24              Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant        0.6.1~git20071119-1 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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