Part of the problem is not going to be fixed now: some of it is in network-manager-applet, which should somehow watch for pending activations and properly close the auth dialog, maybe, if it's possible. This is what is going to fix the *no* auth dialogs from NetworkManager on the screen.
NetworkManager itself appears to be resetting the number of retries for *all* "failed" connections regardless of what the cause for failure was, even if that failure was caused by missing secrets (what seems to be causing the prompt for entering the password again). Now, this particular issue can come from buggy drivers which would pass the secret wrong or otherwise fail to connect to an access-point with an unusual or plain incorrect return code. We can't really account for these without special casing each driver. However, I was able to reproduce the issue and write a patch that seems to properly fix the authentication cases where the password in "incorrect" in NM or otherwise refused by the AP. When a connection fails because of missing secrets (e.g the user was prompted but never answered), the connection is properly marked as failed; then, after 5 minutes the connections that are failed because of "missing secrets" don't have their retries set back to 0 like the other failed connections, but rather will wait until an agent registers, at they should. There is a test package being built at https://launchpad.net/~mathieu- tl/+archive/ppa/+sourcepub/3776171/+listing-archive-extra (my PPA). Please give it a shot and let me know if this fixes the issue acceptably. -- 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/1224040 Title: 13.10: Multiple network manager authentication dialogs for saved network Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: I'm using 13.10 on a Dell XPS13. Network Manager will sometimes put up multiple (10+) authentication dialogs asking me for the password to reconnect to my wireless network. Network Manager already knows the password for the network, and automatically joins the network after reboot/resume/etc. I think there are 2 issues: 1) Network Manager asks for the password even though it already knows the password 2) Network Manager puts up too many dialogs (this issue is reported elsewhere, for example bug 1059529) Steps to reproduce: 1) Connect to a wireless network 2) Leave the machine idle for awhile 3) Unlock the machine from the lock screen Expected results: After unlocking the machine, the desktop and all windows are onscreen. There are no authentication dialogs from network manager Actual results: After unlocking the machine, the desktop and all windows are onscreen. There are 10+ authentication dialogs from network manager Regression info: I thought this was fixed in 12.10/13.04 but it's happening for me in 13.10. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: network-manager 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu20 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-5.11-generic 3.11.0 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-5-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Sep 11 14:11:40 2013 DistributionChannelDescriptor: # This is a distribution channel descriptor # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor canonical-oem-somerville-precise-amd64-20120703-2 IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-29 (286 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20120703-15:08 IpRoute: default via 10.0.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static 10.0.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.1.55 metric 9 10.0.3.0/24 dev lxcbr0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.3.1 192.168.122.0/24 dev virbr0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.122.1 MarkForUpload: True NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-07-19 (54 days ago) nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.8.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1224040/+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
