#651358 network-manager-gnome: sometimes fails to pop up authentication dialog

Package:
network-manager-gnome
Source:
network-manager-applet
Description:
network management framework (GNOME frontend)
Submitter:
Petr Baudis
Date:
2011-12-08 00:24:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
#651358#5
Date:
2011-12-08 00:22:20 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

sometimes, after notebook resume NetworkManager fails to pop up
authentication window for connecting to a network and gets stuck
in the authenticating phase for two minutes:

Dec  8 01:15:50 nibble NetworkManager[1212]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
Dec  8 01:15:50 nibble NetworkManager[1212]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none') [40 50 0]
Dec  8 01:15:50 nibble NetworkManager[1212]: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): access point 'Auto LUTHIEN' has security, but secrets are required.
Dec  8 01:15:50 nibble NetworkManager[1212]: <info> (wlan0): device state change: config -> need-auth (reason 'none') [50 60 0]
Dec  8 01:15:50 nibble NetworkManager[1212]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.

In xsession-errors, one can see:

    JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: TypeError: apObj is null
    JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '1311'
    JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = '"/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/status/network.js"'
    JS ERROR: !!!     stack = '"([object _private_NMClient_DeviceWifi],[object _private_NMClient_AccessPoint])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/status/network.js:1311
"'
      JS LOG: pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed

This happens only sometimes, but there seems to be no correlation with
anything. (Another issue is that networkmanager knows the secret and
shouldn't pop up the dialog at all, but I suppose that's a different
bug.)