[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#905171: Bug#905171: Subject: network-manager: Network-manager will not connect to known wifi networks "no secrets provided"

[Michael Biebl]

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Am 01.08.2018 um 08:57 schrieb Jon Westgate:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 1.12.2-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Since upgrading from NM version 1.10.x I've noticed that it is getting
> increasingly hard to connect to wifi networks.
> With version 1.11.x you couldn't switch networks without first
> disconnecting. That was not ideal but I could deal with it.
> Version 1.12.x is just unusable it just tells me "No secrets provided"
> and or "No Agents were available for this request"
> I'm running KDE so using the plasma UI. If I just downgrade to 1.10.x
> everything just works again wifi automaticly connects as soon as dpkg
> has finished.
> Is there something silly that needs doing like purging settings that
> will fix this? The annoying thing about downgrading is that it means I
> can't use PPP and therefore
> most VPN's are unavailable to me.

Secrects are typically provided by a desktop component. In your case plasma.

Can you try with a minimal desktop environment and network-manager-gnome
(nm-applet) if the problem is reproducible there?
If not, this should probably be reassigned to the plasma desktop (not
sure which component exactly is responsible there for NM support)

An (temporary) workaround might be to store the wifi password system
wide. You can use nm-connection-editor.
In the WiFi Security tab, choose the option "Store the password for all
users"



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