GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 663773
Gnome3 control-center doesn't allow editing connections when they are inactive
Last modified: 2012-05-11 12:26:35 UTC
Created attachment 201152 [details] Screenshot showing a grey configure button The Network-Settings which shows up when clicking Network Settings from the icon in the GNOME Shell, does not allow to edit, add or delete mobile broadband connections, rendering me impossible to connect to the internet. The nm-connection-editor, however, perfectly allows me to do that. I would have expected to be able to change my details without having to call this tool separately.
This is gnome-control-center job, actually. And that's been addressed in bug 657303. See also http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/commit/?id=31f975996ecece93f8921f360e12f97dd29a4b40 What versions of NM and gnome-control-center do you use? What you get with: $ nmcli nm $ nmcli dev status
I have the following versions: gnome-control-center: Installed: 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu6 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages network-manager: Installed: 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu5 Candidate: 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu5 Version table: *** 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu5 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.9.1.90-0ubuntu3 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages I'm sorry, I can't provide you the output right now as I don't have access to the hardware anymore. It'll take me 4 weeks to get access again.
This happens with all kinds of connections, actually (wired, wireless...). Steps that lead me to the problem: 1. Connect to a new wireless network with password (wrong password typed). 2. Try to edit connection preferences to fix wrong password. 3. Connection preferences cannot be changed because network configuration dialog cannot be opened. Configuration button is disabled. Alternative which did not work: 1. Command line: use nmcli con list to see all connections. 2. Attempt nmcli con delete uuid <NETWORK-UUID>, both as regular user and root. 3. No effect (connection still there). Workaround: 1. Logout from GNOME3. 2. Login to GNOME Classic. 3. Open network configuration dialog, select desired connection, edit, save. 4. Logout from GNOME Classic. 5. Login to GNOME3. Alternative workaround: 1. Command line: nm-connection-editor. 2. Select desired connection, edit, save. I consider this of major severity because using GNOME Classic as a way to fix things which do not work on GNOME3 should not happen. Nor can a regular user be expected to know how to open an alternative connection editor manually. A regular user may not even think of those possibilities. I find it very surprising this has reached GNOME 3.2 without fixing.
Indeed. This happens also to me as I have a connection attached to MAC address that I need to change every now and then, but there is no way to find it not even when I plug the device, because the "settings" button is dimmed and there is no way of listing the connections. Of course, a workaround is running the nm-connection-editor, but I think it is not very usable and against the "made of easy".
Tobias, I think you should change the bug summary to get a bit more attention on this.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 653296 ***