I also bumped into this one today. Looking at the code revealed the bug is in get_uchar_array() (src/settings/plugins/keyfile/reader.c, line 733). Besides SSIDs stored as normal strings, the function also has code for reading SSIDs in the form of a semicolon-separated list of integers (the "old format" as the comment refers to it). So when the function encounters an all-numeric SSID, it tries to parse it as if it was in this "old format". This inevitably fails for integers greater than 255 and would report a single-char SSID for lower values which isn't exactly correct either. I'm not really into the key-value file parser in glib but I don't think there's a good way to distinguish between these two cases.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/824260 Title: Network Manager fails to connect to, or create a wireless connection for, an all-numeric SSID Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Could not connect to an all-numeric SSID, or create a connection for one (it would disappear from the list of created wireless connections immediately). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: network-manager 0.8.9997+git.20110721t045648.36db194-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-7.9-generic 3.0.0 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-7-generic i686 Architecture: i386 CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory CasperVersion: 1.277 Date: Thu Aug 11 01:25:32 2011 IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback IpRoute: default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.33 metric 2 LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110808) NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash RfKill: 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/824260/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
