[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#646407: network-manager: Unsolicited password prompt causes loss of connection

[Stefan Monnier]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.4.0-5
Followup-For: Bug #646407

This bug is more severe than it appears.  It seems that NM ends up prompting
for the user's authentication whenever the currently used network
disappears.
The problem is that this can happen at a time where there is no user at
the console, so the network connection is lost and is not recovered until
some user deal with it, even if the network was only temporary unavailable.

So there are two problems: one is requesting user authentication, even tho
the user did not anything, and the other is requesting a new network
password, even tho the network password has not changed (simply, the network
is currently down).


	Stefan


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.6.0-1
ii  dpkg                   1.16.4.3
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.2.2.dfsg.1-5
ii  libc6                  2.13-33
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.0-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.100-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.0-3
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.32.3-1
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.20-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         175-3.1
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.7-4
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.7-4
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.7-4
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.4.0-5
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.4.0-5
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-1
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.1
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian7
ii  udev                   175-3.1
ii  wpasupplicant          1.0-2

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
pn  crda          <none>
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.62-3
ii  iptables      1.4.14-2
pn  modemmanager  <none>
ii  policykit-1   0.105-1
ii  ppp           2.4.5-5.1+b1

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd  <none>

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