Bug 281071 - nm_applet dies when it encounters an SSID containing a "/"
Summary: nm_applet dies when it encounters an SSID containing a "/"
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 277031 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-09-06 17:48 UTC by Matthew Miller
Modified: 2008-04-10 20:44 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 0.6.6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-04-10 20:44:45 UTC
Type: ---
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traceback from crashing nm-applet (2.78 KB, text/plain)
2007-09-06 17:48 UTC, Matthew Miller
no flags Details

Description Matthew Miller 2007-09-06 17:48:17 UTC
Description of problem:

If NetworkManager encounters an SSID that is in the form of a URL, like
"http://example.org/" or "http://mattdm.org/", nm-applet crashes immediately.
(Just being exposed to it "in the air" is enough.)

In older versions, the main NetworkManager process also died, but recently it
seems to keep running. However, I'm not sure it's not corrupted -- in order to
restart nm-applet, I must first restart NetworkManagerDispatcher.


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

  NetworkManager 0.6.5-9.fc8
  kernel 2.6.23-0.164.rc5.fc8,
  wpa_supplicant 0.5.7-7 (relevant? network is unencrypted.)


How reproducible:

  100% Every Time, Guaranteed.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Come to my house.
2. Turn on your laptop with wireless antenna off.
3. Look, there's the applet happily running but seeing no networks.
4. Move to a part of the house where you can only see the neighbor's net.
5. Turn on the antenna.
6. There's the neighbor's SSID. And maybe another neighbor too.
7. Move back into range of my access point.
  
Actual results:

  Blam.

Expected results:

  My SSID shows up in the little drop-down list; everything works.

Additional info:

  Using orinoco_pci, if that matters.

Comment 1 Matthew Miller 2007-09-06 17:48:17 UTC
Created attachment 189031 [details]
traceback from crashing nm-applet

Comment 2 Matthew Miller 2007-09-06 17:53:43 UTC
Perhaps related:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436553

Comment 3 Matthew Miller 2007-09-07 12:52:34 UTC
I narrowed it down -- it's the forward-slash character, "/", that's causing the
problem. And, duh, in retrospect, this is obvious from the dbus error message
which complains about

/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/wlan0/Networks/http_3a_//mattdm_2e_org/wifi



Comment 4 Dan Williams 2008-02-12 03:39:25 UTC
Fixed upstream; should filter back to FC7 with the 0.6.6 update when that lands.

Comment 5 Dan Williams 2008-02-12 03:41:59 UTC
*** Bug 277031 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Dan Williams 2008-04-10 20:44:45 UTC
0.6.6 has been pushed as an F7 update.


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