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

[Michael Biebl]

Control: reassign -1 plasma-nm

On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 13:13:59 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> 
> 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"

This sounds like a plasma-nm related problem, as I can't reproduce the
problem with either GNOME nor nm-applet.

Reassigning accordingly.
Jon, you might add the version information by running
reportbug --template plasma-nm

Regards,
Michael

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