Debian Bug report logs - #642912
network-manager 0.9.0-2 fails with numeric SSIDs

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steven Price <ecrips@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: network-manager 0.9.0-2 fails with numeric SSIDs

Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:49:15 +0100

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8.4.0-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I upgraded to network-manager 0.9.0-2 and then was unable to connect to my
wireless network. Downgrading to 0.8.4-3 solved the problem.

Investigating I discovered that the SSID of my network "16" is causing the
wrong information to be passed to wpa_supplicant. When running with 0.8.4-3 the
NetworkManager log contains:

NetworkManager[8757]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
co
mplete.
NetworkManager[8757]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
starting...
NetworkManager[8757]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 4 -> 5 (reason 0)
NetworkManager[8757]: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): connection 'Auto 16'
h
as security, and secrets exist.  No new secrets needed.
NetworkManager[8757]: <info> Config: added 'ssid' value '16'
NetworkManager[8757]: <info> Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1'
NetworkManager[8757]: <info> Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'WPA-PSK'
NetworkManager[8757]: <info> Config: added 'psk' value '<omitted>'

(note the config added 'ssid' value '16' line).

When running with 0.9.0-2 I get the following log:

NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
c
omplete.
NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device
Configure)
 starting...
NetworkManager[10076]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: prepare -> config
(r
eason 'none') [40 50 0]
NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): connection '16' has
s
ecurity, and secrets exist.  No new secrets needed.
NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Config: added 'ssid' value '^P'
NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1'
NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'WPA-PSK'
NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Config: added 'auth_alg' value 'OPEN'
NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Config: added 'psk' value '<omitted>'

Note that the ssid value is now ^P which is character code 16 - the actual log
contains the control character.

So it looks like something is treating the SSID as a number and converting that
to a character code instead of treating it as an opaque string.

I run gnome as my desktop with nm-applet (network-manager-gnome).



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113      
ii  dbus                   1.4.14-1   
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.1.1-P1-17
ii  libc6                  2.13-21    
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.4.14-1   
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.94-4     
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.0-3    
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.28.6-1   
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.10-2  
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         172-1      
ii  libnl1                 1.1-7      
ii  libnm-glib2            0.8.4.0-2  
ii  libnm-util1            0.8.4.0-2  
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.102-1    
ii  libuuid1               2.19.1-5   
ii  lsb-base               3.2-28     
ii  udev                   172-1      
ii  wpasupplicant          0.7.3-3    

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.58-2  
ii  iptables      1.4.12-1
ii  modemmanager  0.5-1   
ii  policykit-1   0.102-1 
ii  ppp           2.4.5-5 

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd  0.6.30-5

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 642912@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: Steven Price <ecrips@gmail.com>, 642912@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#642912: network-manager 0.9.0-2 fails with numeric SSIDs

Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:43:17 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

notfound 642912 0.8.4.0-2
found 642912 0.9.0-2
tags 642912 moreinfo
thanks

Am 25.09.2011 17:49, schrieb Steven Price:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.8.4.0-2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> I upgraded to network-manager 0.9.0-2 and then was unable to connect to my
> wireless network. Downgrading to 0.8.4-3 solved the problem.

Was that an existing connection configuration that was migrated or did
you create the network connection with 0.9.0?

The severity suggests that the package is completely unusable.

Does that mean other connection don't work either? Are you able to
successfully create new connections?

> Investigating I discovered that the SSID of my network "16" is causing the
> wrong information to be passed to wpa_supplicant. When running with 0.8.4-3 the
> NetworkManager log contains:
> 
> NetworkManager[8757]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
> co
> mplete.
> NetworkManager[8757]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
> starting...
> NetworkManager[8757]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 4 -> 5 (reason 0)
> NetworkManager[8757]: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): connection 'Auto 16'
> h
> as security, and secrets exist.  No new secrets needed.
> NetworkManager[8757]: <info> Config: added 'ssid' value '16'
> NetworkManager[8757]: <info> Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1'
> NetworkManager[8757]: <info> Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'WPA-PSK'
> NetworkManager[8757]: <info> Config: added 'psk' value '<omitted>'
> 
> (note the config added 'ssid' value '16' line).
> 
> When running with 0.9.0-2 I get the following log:
> 
> NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
> c
> omplete.
> NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device
> Configure)
>  starting...
> NetworkManager[10076]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: prepare -> config
> (r
> eason 'none') [40 50 0]
> NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): connection '16' has
> s
> ecurity, and secrets exist.  No new secrets needed.
> NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Config: added 'ssid' value '^P'
> NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1'
> NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'WPA-PSK'
> NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Config: added 'auth_alg' value 'OPEN'
> NetworkManager[10076]: <info> Config: added 'psk' value '<omitted>'
> 
> Note that the ssid value is now ^P which is character code 16 - the actual log
> contains the control character.
> 
> So it looks like something is treating the SSID as a number and converting that
> to a character code instead of treating it as an opaque string.
> 
> I run gnome as my desktop with nm-applet (network-manager-gnome).

Did you restart nm-applet/your desktop session/your computer?

Could you please send me a complete debug log of network-manager,
following the instructions at [1]

thanks,
Michael

[1] https://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/Debugging

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Message #21 received at 642912@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steven Price <ecrips@gmail.com>

To: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

Cc: 642912@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#642912: network-manager 0.9.0-2 fails with numeric SSIDs

Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:16:47 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

On 25/09/11 17:43, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> I upgraded to network-manager 0.9.0-2 and then was unable to connect to my
>> wireless network. Downgrading to 0.8.4-3 solved the problem.
>
> Was that an existing connection configuration that was migrated or did
> you create the network connection with 0.9.0?

I tried deleting all the instances of the connection and recreating it, 
but it didn't seem to help - it just continued to prompt me for the 
passphrase.

> The severity suggests that the package is completely unusable.
>
> Does that mean other connection don't work either? Are you able to
> successfully create new connections?

I only have the one wireless network to test with at the moment - and it 
is unusable with that. Presumably it is working for other people with 
other wireless networks.

> Did you restart nm-applet/your desktop session/your computer?

Yes to switch between the two versions I had to restart nm-applet as 
well as network manager. I have also tried restarting the entire machine 
with 0.9.0-2 but the symptoms are the same.

> Could you please send me a complete debug log of network-manager,
> following the instructions at [1]

Attached is a log generated by running:

NetworkManager --log-level=debug --no-daemon 2>&1 | tee network-manager.log

I was unable to get the wpa_supplicant.log to appear (I didn't have the 
"-f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log" so I added it and did the dbus commands 
- but no file was created). If you can provide instructions on how to do 
this on Debian (wheezy) I can supply the logs.

Thanks,

Steve

[network-manager.log (text/x-log, attachment)]

Message #32 received at 642912@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Александр Семёнов <rotuka@yandex.ru>

To: 642912@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Same problem affected me

Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:36:39 +0400

Same problem affected me (SSID id "259"). Is there any workaround?

Message #45 received at 642912-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: 642912-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#642912: fixed in network-manager 0.9.1.95-1

Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:17:59 +0000

Source: network-manager
Source-Version: 0.9.1.95-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
network-manager, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
  to main/n/network-manager/gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
libnm-glib-dev_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
  to main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib-dev_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
libnm-glib-vpn-dev_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
  to main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib-vpn-dev_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
libnm-glib-vpn1_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
  to main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib-vpn1_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
libnm-glib4_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
  to main/n/network-manager/libnm-glib4_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
libnm-util-dev_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
  to main/n/network-manager/libnm-util-dev_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
libnm-util2_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
  to main/n/network-manager/libnm-util2_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
network-manager-dbg_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
  to main/n/network-manager/network-manager-dbg_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
network-manager-dev_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
  to main/n/network-manager/network-manager-dev_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
network-manager_0.9.1.95-1.debian.tar.gz
  to main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.9.1.95-1.debian.tar.gz
network-manager_0.9.1.95-1.dsc
  to main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.9.1.95-1.dsc
network-manager_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
  to main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.9.1.95-1_i386.deb
network-manager_0.9.1.95.orig.tar.xz
  to main/n/network-manager/network-manager_0.9.1.95.orig.tar.xz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 642912@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> (supplier of updated network-manager package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:32:50 +0100
Source: network-manager
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Architecture: source i386
Version: 0.9.1.95-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
Description: 
 gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0 - GObject introspection data for NetworkManager
 libnm-glib-dev - network management framework (GLib interface)
 libnm-glib-vpn-dev - network management framework (GLib interface)
 libnm-glib-vpn1 - network management framework (GLib VPN shared library)
 libnm-glib4 - network management framework (GLib shared library)
 libnm-util-dev - network management framework (development files)
 libnm-util2 - network management framework (shared library)
 network-manager - network management framework (daemon and userspace tools)
 network-manager-dbg - network management framework (debugging symbols)
 network-manager-dev - network management framework (development files)
Closes: 546893 624159 637005 638995 641904 642912
Changes: 
 network-manager (0.9.1.95-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release (0.9.2 rc1).
     - Fix connection sharing with newer iptables versions. (Closes: #638995)
     - Fix handling of numeric SSIDs in the keyfile plugin. (Closes: #642912)
   * debian/watch: Track .xz tarballs.
   * debian/libnm-util2.symbols: Add new symbols for libnm-util.
   * debian/patches/04-dont-update-routing-and-dns-for-unmanaged-devices.patch
     - Avoid blowing away existing routes and resolv.conf if NM never managed
       any devices. (Closes: #546893, #624159, #637005, #641904)
   * debian/control: Add Build-Depends on libglib2.0-doc for proper
     cross-references in the gtk-doc API documentation.
   * Enable default hardening options from dpkg-buildflags.
     - Use buildflags.mk snippet in debian/rules.
     - Add Build-Depends on dpkg-dev (>= 1.6.1).
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