[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#517397: network-manager: fails to connect to WPA2

[Leszek Koltunski]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.0.97-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

After recent upgrade from 0.6.6, I am unable to connect to my WPA2 AP. Downgrading back to 0.6.6 solves 
the problem.

Symptoms: I try to connect, it tries for some 20 seconds, then presents me with the dialog asking me to 
enter the password ( it should know the password, it's in the keyring ). The password field is 
already filled in, but if I click on 'show the password' it turns out to be gibberish. ( googling shows 
people think it is the password, but hashed ).  If I fill in the correct password, it simply tries once 
more for another 20 seconds, then shows the dialog again and keeps doing that ad infinitum.

I believe my issue is the same as Bill Moseley's reported in n-m's  mailing list here:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2009-February/msg00153.html

Dan William there advised to turn on debugging in wpa-supplicant by adding '-dddt' to 
the exec line in /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.service.
So i did exactly :

# rm -rf /var/log/wpa-supplicant.log
# add the '-dddt' to the file
# killall -TERM wpa_supplicant
# try to connect again.

The resulting, complete 'wpa-supplicant.log' and a revelant part of syslog can be found in 

http://koltunski.pl/n-m-problems/

My AP uses 'WPA2 Personal' with TKIP on channel 6 ( 2.437 Ghz ) SSID broadcast is set to on. Anyway, as 
I said before, downgrading to n-m 0.6.6 solves the problem.

best,

Leszek


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (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                   1.2.12-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcp3-client           3.1.1-6           DHCP client
ii  hal                    0.5.11-8          Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown               0.6.8+nmu1        high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                  2.9-3             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.12-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.80-3            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.4-2           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.18.4-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26            2.6.4-2           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.4-2             library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-8          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnl1                 1.1-5             library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib0            0.7.0.97-1        network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1            0.7.0.97-1        network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-3             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-3             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libtasn1-3             1.8-1             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          0.6.4-3           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      0.7.0.97-1    network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit                  0.9-3         framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp                        2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

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

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