[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#753648: Bug#753648: Bug#753648: network-manager: Connecting to an encrypted WLAN fails with `received an invalid or unencryptable secret`

[anarcat]

I can confirm this behaviour here.

I am running only nm-applet (on top of course of the system-wide
NetworkManager daemon). Sometimes, out of the blue, some networks won't
work. For example here, i have an internal *and* external wifi card. NM
can connect to network "foo" fine with the internal card, but the
external card yields this error:

nov 08 21:37:18 angela NetworkManager[921]: <info> Activation (wlan1) starting connection 'foo'
nov 08 21:37:18 angela NetworkManager[921]: <info> Activation (wlan1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
nov 08 21:37:18 angela NetworkManager[921]: <info> Activation (wlan1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
nov 08 21:37:18 angela NetworkManager[921]: <info> (wlan1): device state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none') [30 40 0]
nov 08 21:37:19 angela NetworkManager[921]: <info> Activation (wlan1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
nov 08 21:37:19 angela NetworkManager[921]: <info> Activation (wlan1) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
nov 08 21:37:19 angela NetworkManager[921]: <info> Activation (wlan1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
nov 08 21:37:19 angela NetworkManager[921]: <info> (wlan1): device state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none') [40 50 0]
nov 08 21:37:19 angela NetworkManager[921]: <info> Activation (wlan1/wireless): access point 'foo' has security, but secrets are required.
nov 08 21:37:19 angela NetworkManager[921]: <info> (wlan1): device state change: config -> need-auth (reason 'none') [50 60 0]
nov 08 21:37:19 angela NetworkManager[921]: <info> Activation (wlan1) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
nov 08 21:37:19 angela NetworkManager[921]: <warn> No agents were available for this request.
nov 08 21:37:19 angela NetworkManager[921]: <info> (wlan1): device state change: need-auth -> failed (reason 'no-secrets') [60 120 7]
nov 08 21:37:19 angela NetworkManager[921]: <warn> Activation (wlan1) failed for connection 'foo'
nov 08 21:37:19 angela NetworkManager[921]: <info> (wlan1): device state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0]
nov 08 21:37:19 angela NetworkManager[921]: <info> (wlan1): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0]

What's odd is that it works with the internal card fine. I tried
removing items from the config, they are recreated when using the
internal card (which is also odd).

This bug looks like those as well:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=203374
http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=7458
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1973863

so it is probably not debian specific, but seems common with non-Gnome
setup (e.g. XFCE above).

Oddly enough here, restarting `nm-applet` fixes the problem. It prompts
me for my gnome-keyring passphrase (which i never setup, i believe), i
dismiss that dialog and then things work fine.

really odd.

A.