Patrick Boutilier wrote on Saturday 18 June 2011:
On 06/17/2011 02:58 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> On 06/17/2011 12:06 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
>>> Sorry guys, let me know when this one's fully baked.
>>>
>>> I tried using plasma to edit wireless connection (actually, just wanted
>>> to look
>>> at it). It went into infinite loop again.
>>
>> So, you just went into the connection editor, and didn't actually edit
>> anything? I'm just looking for a recipe to trigger this.
>>
>> -- Rex
>
> Yes, I believe I did manage connections, then click on a wireless
> connection.
I can reproduce by going to Manage Connections, selecting the wireless
AP I want and clicking the Edit button. At this point a dialog box comes
up that says "No agents were available for this request". The title of
the dialog box is "Error - KDE Control Module" . Click "Ok" and the
"Edit Network Connection" box does come up. Select "Wireless
Security"
tab and enter WPA/WPA2 Personal password. As soon as I click "Ok"
NetworkManager goes haywire.
Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]: ifcfg-rh: updating
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]: ifcfg-rh: updating
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]: ifcfg-rh: updating
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]: ifcfg-rh: updating
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]: ifcfg-rh: updating
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]: ifcfg-rh: updating
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]: ifcfg-rh: updating
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
Jun 17 23:49:47 hplaptop NetworkManager[1956]: ifcfg-rh: updating
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-WWOOD3
And so on...
At this point the only way out is to kill -9 NetworkManager. WPA2
password never gets saved but I am able to connect if I type the
password in each time when the dialog box pops up asking for the password.
Did you test nm-applet? I could not try the new plasma-nm, but with nm-applet
I'm seeing the same behavior of NetworkManager when I try to setup a WPA2
enterprise connection. So this might be a bug in NetworkManager itself instead
of plasma-nm.