[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#773525: Bug#773525: Randomly excludes available connections [when there are too many?]

[Pietro Battiston]

Il giorno ven, 19/12/2014 alle 15.45 +0100, Michael Biebl ha scritto:
> [...]
> Am 19.12.2014 um 15:32 schrieb Pietro Battiston:
> [...]
> > This is why the bug is grave: in particular, if a remote server relies on
> > network-manager in order to connect at startup... you'd better hope it is not
> > too remote.
> 
> Not really, grave means, the package is unusable, which it clearly i'snt.
> 

It is hardly usable for me - it would be totally unusable for me if at
work I did not (usually) have also a cable connection, which usually
works (or maybe I just created enough copies of it? don't know...).

Except that your question below seems to imply nobody except me has many
(> 127, presumably?) connections. So, OK, if it's just me I understand.
My best guess is that computers on which many connections got remembered
along the years are statistically not the same ones which are updated to
testing, but I have no data to test this hypothesis.


> > The bug was present also with 0.9.10.0-3. My rough guess is that the
> > problematic upgrade was located between July and September.
> > 
> 
> Can you pinpoint the exact version please.
> 

(I'm not forgetting your request, but I don't think I will manage to do
it today)


> > pietro at debiousci:~$ ls /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections | wc
> >     431     891    8594
> 
> How did you generate 431 connections? Did you copy files around?
> 

Yeah, I enjoy copying files around!

No.

Looking at them, I certainly have some doubles, i.e. because one
connection did not show up so I recreated it thinking it had completely
disappeared. But mostly (>300) they are "real" connections. The oldest
ones are from 2011, which means ~ 1.5 per week... given that I travel
quite a bit, I hack quite a bit, and when I am without Internet and see
some open wireless I often try to connect, this is not a particularly
strange number.

Pietro