Hi- Thanks for finding this workaround. However, editing by hand is prone to errors.
Since there are possibly many occurrences of old uuids in ~/.kde/share/config/knetworkmanagerrc, I wrote this AWK script (attached) to carefully make sure that they all get replaced in a consistent manner with proper UUIDs throughout the file. Mateo. On Monday 01 February 2010, you wrote: > Hi, > > this seems to be caused by knetworkmanager's liberal interpretation of the > term 'uuid'. > I stopped knetworkmanager, went to my ~/.kde/share/config/knetworkmanagerrc > and replaced > lines of the form > > [ConnectionSetting_1NCFiIxMwpU6DxST_connection] > ... > Value_uuid=<string>1NCFiIxMwpU6DxST</string>\n > ... > > with valid UUIDs (produced by uuidgen or cat //proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid) > like > > Value_uuid=<string>7166eb59-84e9-4d72-a734-83a138e394d4</string>\n > > and I can use the entries where I've made the substituion again. > > ciao, >
nm-repair.awk
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