[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#694695: Bug#694695: network-manager-gnome: wifi selection fails silently w/o gnome-keyring

[Michael Biebl]

On 29.11.2012 10:19, chrysn wrote:
> Package: network-manager-gnome
> Version: 0.9.4.1-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> when installed without gnome-keyring, connecting to unknown protected
> wireless networks fails silently. nm-applet's output shows:
> 
> Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: The name
> org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any service files
> 
> looking up that service led me the way to installing gnome-keyring, and
> things work now. as connecting to wifi is the most common use case for
> network-manager, gnome-keyring should at least be in the Recommends
> field of the package.

..

> Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
> pn  libpam-keyring                       <none>


That's what the libpam-keyring Recommends is for which you chose to not
install.

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