Ubuntu
network-manager-applet package

Python cannot create NMGtkWifiDialog

Bug #1667129 reported by Jeremy Soller on 2017-02-22

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Network Manager Applet	Fix Released	Medium	gnome-bugs #779153
	network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Python, using pygobject, is unable to spawn an NMGtkWifiDialog using the new function, due to the SSID setting not being settable (GArray<guchar> is not supported by pygobject). If the SSID is not set, the dialog will not display correctly, and will not function.

A potential fix is to copy the SSID from the AP information if present.

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Jeremy Soller (jackpot51) wrote on 2017-02-22:

wpa_enterprise.patch Edit (16.9 KiB, text/plain)

Here is a patch, python_wifi_dialog.patch

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Jeremy Soller (jackpot51) wrote on 2017-02-22:

wifi_dialog.py Edit (1.7 KiB, text/x-python)

Here is a test script. Edit IFACE and AP_NAME to be what you can connect to.

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Jeremy Soller (jackpot51) wrote on 2017-02-22:

python_wifi_dialog.patch Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain)

Sorry, I attached an incorrect patch, showing usage in ubiquity.

Here is the correct patch.

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Jeremy Soller (jackpot51) wrote on 2017-02-22:

This is required for a patch to ubiquity: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1107935

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2017-02-22:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in network-manager-applet (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote on 2017-02-23:

Could you forward this upstream as a git formatted patch?

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=NetworkManager&component=nm-applet

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Jeremy Soller (jackpot51) wrote on 2017-02-23:

Sure thing.

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Jeremy Soller (jackpot51) wrote on 2017-02-23:

I created an upstream bug here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779153

Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) on 2017-02-25

Changed in network-manager-applet (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2017-02-26

Changed in network-manager-applet:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

Mathew Hodson (mhodson) on 2017-02-26

Changed in network-manager-applet (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
no longer affects:	ubiquity (Ubuntu)

Mathew Hodson (mhodson) on 2017-02-26

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added: patch patch-forwarded-upstream

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Jeremy Soller (jackpot51) wrote on 2017-03-07:

#10

If we update `network-manager-applet` to include this commit: https://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?id=7a59d41e5f6666d0da51f1f7aae7518befdb1182, then `libnma` can be used, and this bug can be fixed without further code changes.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2017-03-08:

#11

This bug was fixed in the package network-manager-applet - 1.4.2-1ubuntu4

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network-manager-applet (1.4.2-1ubuntu4) zesty; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/git_fix_libnma_pygobject_symbols.patch: fix symbol linking
    for libnma, so as to not mix libnm-util/libnm-glib and libnm code.
    (LP: #1667129)

-- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Mar 2017 14:41:33 -0500