Bug 521355

Created attachment 359855 [details]
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I forgot to add a screenshot of what I'm seeing.

To get more debug output, could you run 'nm-connection-editor' from a terminal, try to make the change, and then paste the nm-connection-editor output into this bug?  Thanks!

You might also try this update;

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This is what I get:
$ nm-connection-editor
#selected wireless tab    

(nm-connection-editor:29979): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

(nm-connection-editor:29979): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

(nm-connection-editor:29979): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

(nm-connection-editor:29979): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

** (nm-connection-editor:29979): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wireless Security: Invalid wireless security

#clicked to edit "Auto Gramps"

** (nm-connection-editor:29979): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wireless Security: Invalid wireless security

** (nm-connection-editor:29979): WARNING **: Invalid setting Wireless Security: Invalid wireless security
#removed "Auto" from name by selecting and pressing DELETE key 

Lines starting with # are my comments to show what I did.

I noticed that the "Apply" button isn't grayed out for all networks. I'm able to successfully edit network names for more recently added ones.

The above test was done on F11 with: NetworkManager-0.7.1-8.git20090708.fc11.x86_64 NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.1-8.git20090708.fc11.x86_64.

This specific network behaviour hasn't changed with the following packages:

NetworkManager-0.7.1.997-1.fc11.x86_64
NetworkManager-glib-0.7.1.997-1.fc11.x86_64
NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.1.997-1.fc11.x86_64

What kind of wifi security is it?  Just WPA-PSK or something else?  Does the password show up in the Wifi Security tab?

The security is "WPA & WPA2 Personal". The password does not show up although I remember entering it multiple times when originally connecting to the network.

If you re-enter the WPA passphrase does the Apply button re-enable itself?  If you then apply teh changes, and re-edit the connection, does the passphrase come back or is it blank?

(In reply to comment #7)
> If you re-enter the WPA passphrase does the Apply button re-enable itself?
Yes

>  If you then apply teh changes, and re-edit the connection, does the passphrase
> come back or is it blank?  

The passphrase comes back and now I'm able to edit the network name.

I'd like to note my guess for why the passphrase wasn't visible before. I recall that when connecting to new encrypted networks, I would get a prompt to save the passphrase in a keyring. I would be given an option to enter my keyring password and "allow" and "deny" buttons. Since I didn't know the keyring password, I would just click "deny".

Btw, this last test was performed on F12 with:
NetworkManager-0.7.996-6.git20091021.fc12.x86_64
NetworkManager-glib-0.7.996-6.git20091021.fc12.x86_64
NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.996-6.git20091021.fc12.x86_64

Yeah, that would cause the problem.  If you hit deny, your password isn't saved, and thus you need to enter it again in the connection editor.  So I think this is expected behavior, do you mind if I close as NOTABUG?

I would mind if this bug was closed because I don't think that n-c-e should behave as it does now if the passkey isn't stored. It doesn't make sense from a user's perspective.

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