wpasupplicant: unknown keys in no-mac-addr-change.conf

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

Operating System: Kubuntu 20.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.12.5
Kernel Version: 5.4.0-21-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM

Apr 02 17:53:55 buntu NetworkManager[737]: <info> [1585868035.8797] NetworkManager (version 1.22.10) is starting... (for the first time)
Apr 02 17:53:55 buntu NetworkManager[737]: <info> [1585868035.8798] Read config: /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf (lib: 10-dns-resolved.conf, no-mac-addr-change.conf) (run: 10-globally-managed-devices.conf) (etc: default-wifi-po>
Apr 02 17:53:55 buntu NetworkManager[737]: <warn> [1585868035.8798] config: unknown key 'wifi.cloned-mac-address' in section [device-mac-addr-change-wifi] of file '/usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/no-mac-addr-change.conf'
Apr 02 17:53:55 buntu NetworkManager[737]: <warn> [1585868035.8798] config: unknown key 'ethernet.cloned-mac-address' in section [device-mac-addr-change-wifi] of file '/usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/no-mac-addr-change.conf'

Suggested workaround:

1. Copy file /lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/no-mac-addr-change.conf to dir /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/

2. Edit file /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/no-mac-addr-change.conf: Move 2 lines with cloned-mac-address to new chapter [connection-mac-addr-change-wifi], cf. attachment.

Sorry for bad handling. #4 is attachment belonging to #5

NetworkManager[681]: <warn> [1587639528.0703] config: unknown key 'wifi.cloned-mac-address' in section [device-mac-addr-change-wifi] of file '/usr/lib/NetworkM>
NetworkManager[681]: <warn> [1587639528.0703] config: unknown key 'ethernet.cloned-mac-address' in section [device-mac-addr-change-wifi] of file '/usr/lib/Netw>

It has been fixed in Debian in https://salsa.debian.org/debian/wpa/-/commit/00ec8743

This bug was fixed in the package wpa - 2:2.9-1ubuntu7

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wpa (2:2.9-1ubuntu7) groovy; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/git_roaming_interface.patch:
    - backport upstream fix 'dbus: Move roam metrics to the correct
      interface', should reduces the number of events (lp: #1879087)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 20 May 2020 19:03:27 +0200

Hello Laurent, or anyone else affected,

Accepted wpa into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpa/2:2.9-1ubuntu4.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

I installed this package:

  Package: wpasupplicant
  Version: 2:2.9-1ubuntu4.1

from focal-proposed and now this command:

  journalctl | grep cloned-mac-address

gives no output. Therefore, the error message is gone.

And of course Wi-Fi still works on my WPA2-protected home network.

Thanks a lot!

Thanks for testing!

Working for me too. Many thanks.

This bug was fixed in the package wpa - 2:2.9-1ubuntu4.1

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wpa (2:2.9-1ubuntu4.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/git_roaming_interface.patch:
    - backport upstream fix 'dbus: Move roam metrics to the correct
      interface', should reduces the number of events (lp: #1879087)
  * debian/NetworkManager/no-mac-addr-change.conf:
    - remove configuration options that aren't needed and were copied to
      the wrong section, fixes warnings in the log (lp: #1826639)
  * debian/patches/Check-for-FT-support-when-selecting-FT-suites.patch:
    - Backport upstream fix "Check for FT support when selecting FT suites"
      to fix drivers without FT support, thanks Kai-Heng Feng (lp: #1881549)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 20 May 2020 13:01:53 +0200

The verification of the Stable Release Update for wpa has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.