This is fixed in (at least) raring, but it would be great to get the fix backported to precise as well, so someone with the powers should mark it as affecting Precise before marking it fixed for Ubuntu.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1059529 Title: Multiple Network Authentication Dialogs Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Network Manager opens multiple windows asking network authentication. If network signal is weak, this can happen automatically as NM loses the network then finds it again, asking for authentication. This can result in tens of windows after a few hours, if unsupervised. To test manually: 1. Select a wireless network for which no password has been saved from nm-applet. 2. The dialog pops up. 3. Without closing the dialog, reselect the network from nm-applet. 4. A second (identical) dialog pops up. (Expected: The old dialog is reused, or is closed as stale.) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic-pae 3.2.24 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12 Architecture: i386 CasperVersion: 1.315 Date: Mon Oct 1 14:22:27 2012 IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback IpRoute: default via 192.168.0.1 dev wlan0 proto static 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000 192.168.0.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.15 metric 2 LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3) NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) nmcli-con: NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH Wired connection 1 12cd62ad-698e-4507-a944-0d89176544fd 802-3-ethernet 1349083407 Mon 01 Oct 2012 12:23:27 PM EEST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/2 penthouse a48953a3-d68b-41b9-81bb-4d2027587186 802-11-wireless 1349090319 Mon 01 Oct 2012 02:18:39 PM EEST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1 temp d3d7b612-ca12-4fe1-8cfd-2d0d1b2eb3f6 802-11-wireless 1348708389 Thu 27 Sep 2012 04:13:09 AM EEST yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0 nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 wlan0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.4.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1059529/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp