[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#813163: network-manager-gnome: Mobile Broadband: Cannot reconnect via existing connection

[Hans Streibel]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.9.10.0-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

whenever I plug-in my surfstick (UMTS stick) I cannot connect to the internet via
a connection which was already configured before using the Network Manager
Applet in Gnome3.

There is no way to edit the existing connection (which is not necessary
because it is still valid).

I can only create a new Mobile Broadband connection - which is the same
as the existing connection. Connecting to the internet via this new connection
succeeds. However in subsequent tries (after the computer was started again)
I am not able to use this new connection again.

And so on, and so on.
In the meantime I have many connections which I could only use once.
They are all duplicates of each other.
Every connection is usable only once.

The old connections are still valid.
Using such an old connection via the command line still succeeds:
	connection="Vodafone"
	nmcli con modify id  "$connection" connection.id "$connection"
	nmcli con up id  "$connection"

After these commands I am able to use the applet to start the connection, too.
After these commands I am able to edit the connection.

This whole behaviour is *strange*.

I do not use "reportbug" very often.
I hope this program will give me the possibilty to add my logfiles as
appendices.

I should note that in Wheezy everything worked fine here.

Hans

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                                     1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.22.0-1
ii  gconf-service                                3.2.6-3
ii  gnome-icon-theme                             3.12.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.0-2.1
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.102-1
ii  libgconf-2-4                                 3.2.6-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.31.1-2+deb8u4
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.42.1-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0                            3.12.0-1+b1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii  libmm-glib0                                  1.4.0-1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1                              0.9.10.0-7
ii  libnm-glib4                                  0.9.10.0-7
ii  libnm-gtk0                                   0.9.10.0-2
ii  libnm-util2                                  0.9.10.0-7
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.8-3
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.18-1+b1
ii  network-manager                              0.9.10.0-7
ii  policykit-1-gnome                            0.105-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring                   3.14.0-1+b1
ii  iso-codes                       3.57-1
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info  20140317-1
ii  notification-daemon             0.7.6-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
pn  network-manager-openconnect-gnome  <none>
ii  network-manager-openvpn-gnome      0.9.10.0-1
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome         <none>
ii  network-manager-vpnc-gnome         0.9.10.0-1

-- no debconf information