[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#728774: network-manager: daemon crashes when using multiple WiFi connections with same SSID (but different config)

[Maarten Aertsen]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.8.0-5
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

When defining multiple connections with the same SSID (e.g. for the purpose of 
auto-connecting one of them, with an associated VPN, and manually connecting the other without VPN to allow login on a WiFi portal), the NetworkManager daemon repeatedly crashes on use of these connections. 

nm-applet seems to indicate that this is a valid use-case, showing submenu's for the SSID in question. The behaviour manifests itself in when auto-connecting or when manually selecting one of the connections involved. nm-applet hides as soon as NetworkManager crashes and sometimes spawns a dialog "".

reproducibility: frequently, not always. Having freshly defined the connections everything seems fine. A reboot (i.e. more than a network-manager / nm-applet restart) usually is enough to trigger the problems.

This behaviour also manifests itself in the network-manager in Ubuntu 13.04 (0.9.8.0-0ubuntu6). I haven't filed a bug with Ubuntu. I'd be happy to supply more information, but are not sure what to look for. Could you indicate which steps to take to supply you with more useful information?

Workaround: delete duplicate connections, restart NetworkManager.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.6.16-1
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.2.4-7
ii  libc6                  2.17-93
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.16-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.100.2-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.3-2
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.36.4-1
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.23-8
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         204-5
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.21-1
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.21-1
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.21-1
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.8.0-5
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.8.0-5
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-4
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.5
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian12
ii  udev                   204-5
ii  wpasupplicant          1.0-3+b2

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.66-4
ii  iptables      1.4.20-2
ii  modemmanager  0.5.2.0-2
ii  policykit-1   0.105-4
ii  ppp           2.4.5+git20130610-1

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd  0.6.31-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla'

-- no debconf information