Bug 2216357

Summary: NetworkManager sometimes fails to ask for a password when connecting to an encrypted WiFi network
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dima Ryazanov <dima>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 38CC: bgalvani, dcbw, ferferna, gnome-sig, liangwen12year, lkundrak, mclasen, rstrode, vbubela
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Description Dima Ryazanov 2023-06-21 00:25:04 UTC 
Description of problem:

Once in a while, when connecting to a new WiFi network, I don't get a password prompt, and it simply doesn't connect. If I open WiFi settings in the Settings app and click the network, then the password prompt appears for maybe 0.1 seconds and disappears. The network gets "saved", and, as a workaround, I can then click the "gear" icon and manually enter the password in the security tab.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

NetworkManager-1.42.6-1.fc38.x86_64

How reproducible:

Somewhat infrequent. Last time it happened, I used airplane mode and USB tethering just before trying to connect to the WiFi.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

Password prompt appears for 0.1 seconds and disappears

Expected results:

Password prompt should prompt for a password

Additional info:

systemd logs:

Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <info>  [1687305711.0214] device (wlp1s0): Activation: starting connection '87743Ewifipod' (1009cf5e-6207-42b3-b88c-742fe5068a75)
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <info>  [1687305711.0216] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="1009cf5e-6207-42b3-b88c-742fe5068a75" name="87743Ewifipod" pid=11564 uid=1000 result="success"
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <info>  [1687305711.0236] device (wlp1s0): state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <info>  [1687305711.0368] device (wlp1s0): set-hw-addr: reset MAC address to E4:B3:18:12:34:56 (preserve)
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <info>  [1687305711.0412] device (wlp1s0): state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <info>  [1687305711.0418] device (wlp1s0): Activation: (wifi) access point '87743Ewifipod' has security, but secrets are required.
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <info>  [1687305711.0418] device (wlp1s0): state change: config -> need-auth (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell systemd-resolved[2527]: Using degraded feature set TCP instead of UDP for DNS server ::1.
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell systemd-resolved[2527]: Using degraded feature set UDP instead of TCP for DNS server ::1.
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <info>  [1687305711.0482] device (wlp1s0): supplicant interface state: inactive -> disconnected
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <info>  [1687305711.0482] device (p2p-dev-wlp1s0): supplicant management interface state: inactive -> disconnected
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <info>  [1687305711.0536] device (wlp1s0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> inactive
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <info>  [1687305711.0537] device (p2p-dev-wlp1s0): supplicant management interface state: disconnected -> inactive
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <warn>  [1687305711.1424] device (wlp1s0): no secrets: No agents were available for this request.
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <info>  [1687305711.1424] device (wlp1s0): state change: need-auth -> failed (reason 'no-secrets', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <warn>  [1687305711.1430] device (wlp1s0): Activation: failed for connection '87743Ewifipod'
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <info>  [1687305711.1433] device (wlp1s0): state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
Jun 20 17:01:51 dima-dell NetworkManager[2921]: <info>  [1687305711.1537] device (wlp1s0): set-hw-addr: set MAC address to FA:0E:BE:B3:1D:94 (scanning)
Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2024-05-22 14:09:31 UTC 
Fedora Linux 38 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2024-05-21.

Fedora Linux 38 is no longer maintained, which means that it
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