[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#504456: network-manager: System-wide WEP network fails with error communicating with wpa_supplicant

[Josh Triplett]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.0~svn4191-1
Severity: important

A WEP network configured to work system-wide fails with an error
communicating with wpa_supplicant:

NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) starting connection 'T'
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state change: 3 -> 4
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state change: 4 -> 5
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0/wireless): access point 'T' has security, but secrets are required.
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state change: 5 -> 6
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state change: 6 -> 4
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state change: 4 -> 5
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0/wireless): connection 'T' has security, and secrets exist.  No new secrets needed.
NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'ssid' value 'T'
NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1'
NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'NONE'
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'auth_alg' value 'OPEN'
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'psk' value '<omitted>'
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'wep_key0' value '<omitted>'
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'wep_key1' value '<omitted>'
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'wep_key2' value '<omitted>'
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'wep_key3' value '<omitted>'
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <info>  Config: added 'wep_tx_keyidx' value '0'
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <info>  Config: set interface ap_scan to 1
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant connection state change: 2 -> 0
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <WARN>  set_network_cb(): Couldn't set network config: Did not receive correct message arguments..
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0/wireless): association request to the supplicant failed: fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.InvalidOptions - Did not receive correct message arguments.
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state change: 5 -> 9
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (T)
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <info>  Marking connection 'T' invalid.
Nov  3 15:11:46 feather NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (wlan0) failed.


The same connection works fine if it gets the authentication
information from the GNOME NetworkManager applet instead.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-amd64 (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                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                   1.2.1-4           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal                    0.5.11-6          Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown               0.6.8+nmu1        high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                  2.7-15            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-4           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.1-1           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26            2.4.2-1           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.4-2             library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-6          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnl1                 1.1-3             library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib0            0.7.0~svn4191-1   network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util0            0.7.0~svn4191-1   network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-1             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-1             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libtasn1-3             1.5-1             Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libuuid1               1.41.3-1          universally unique id library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-20            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant          0.6.4-2           Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome     0.7.0~svn953-1 network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit                 0.9-1          framework for managing administrat

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

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