[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#916326: network-manager: Doesn't connect when there are dozens of Wifi APs in range

[Russell Coker]

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.14.4-4
Severity: normal

My laptop running Debian/Testing works perfectly at home.  Connects to wifi
every time without problems.  At home there is my own Wifi network and a few
networks of neighbors.  At the office it usually fails to connect, the list of
Wifi APs shown through NM interfaces changes and is always a subset of the
actual list of dozens of APs.  When I force it to connect it often refuses
saying that the AP doesn't exist (not in the subset currently displayed).

My work laptop running Debian/Stretch works perfectly at home and at the office
so it seems that this is a regression from Stretch.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: SELinux: enabled - Mode: Enforcing - Policy name: default

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.118
ii  dbus                   1.12.10-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.56
ii  libaudit1              1:2.8.4-2
ii  libbluetooth3          5.50-1
ii  libc6                  2.27-8
ii  libcurl3-gnutls        7.62.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.58.1-2
ii  libgnutls30            3.5.19-1+b1
ii  libjansson4            2.11-1
ii  libmm-glib0            1.8.2-1
ii  libndp0                1.6-1+b1
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.20-8
ii  libnm0                 1.14.4-4
ii  libpam-systemd         239-13
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-22
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-22
ii  libpsl5                0.20.2-2
ii  libreadline7           7.0-5
ii  libselinux1            2.8-1+b1
ii  libsystemd0            239-13
ii  libteamdctl0           1.27-1
ii  libudev1               239-13
ii  libuuid1               2.32.1-0.1
ii  lsb-base               10.2018112800
ii  policykit-1            0.105-22
ii  udev                   239-13
ii  wpasupplicant          2:2.6-18

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda                         3.18-1
ii  dnsmasq-base [dnsmasq-base]  2.80-1
ii  iptables                     1.8.2-2
ii  isc-dhcp-client              4.3.5-4+b1
ii  modemmanager                 1.8.2-1
ii  ppp                          2.4.7-2+4

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  libteam-utils  <none>

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