Creating a wireless or PPPOE connection fails with "Error editing connection: property '%s' / '%s' invalid: %d"

Also affects creating wireless connections.

Upstream bug reported: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596751

Creating a wireless connection makes the same mistake. Subscribe.

the same problem with Karmic beta....

should be fixed in trunk ppa: https://edge.launchpad.net/~network-manager/+archive/trunk ... please verify.

the same problem
i have used pppoeconf

I can confirmed this bug.

After using the trunk PPA, I can create the DSL connection now, but I still can't not use it, it isn't available. Please see the attachment.

This bug is fixed in trunk PPA, thanks, Alexander.
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You can not use network manager cause you setup network with ppoeconf or manually trough editing of /etc/network/interfaces. Just comment eth0 and pppoe entries int /etc/network/interfaces so it looks like this:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

#auto dsl-provider
#iface dsl-provider inet ppp
#pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf
#provider dsl-provider

#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet manual

I can confirmed this bug.
Havent tried trunk PPA yet.

This bug is also present when creating or importing a VPN (network-manager-vpnc) connection. You also get this text below the error: NMSettingIP4Config.

This bug is also present when creating a VPN connection (network-manager-vpnc) in the 9.10 beta.

This bug was fixed in the package network-manager - 0.8~a~git.20091005t192303.1d28ad1-0ubuntu1

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network-manager (0.8~a~git.20091005t192303.1d28ad1-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * upstream snapshot 2009-10-05 19:23:03 (GMT)
    + 1d28ad1aa54bacf6b6b64582ee7c41d9728d7304
  * fixed upstream
    - LP: #413622 - Network manager does not unmanage devices configured as
      "mapping" in /etc/network/interfaces
    - LP: #413967 - Network manager does not connect wlan0 on startup
    - LP: #417719 - Disconnected static wired network initially treated as
      connected
    - LP: #422597 - 802.11x fails for wired connections (wireless works)
    - LP: #438771 - Creating a wireless or DSL connection fails with
      "Error editing connection: property '%s' / '%s' invalid: %d"
    - LP: #443423 - Connection properties are not stored
    - LP: #439221 - cannot create wireless Wpa & Wpa2 connection with GUI
    - LP: #441668 - network-manager does not save modifications on GSM
      connections
    - LP: #438454 - NetworkManager fails to set IP and route information entered

  [ Mathieu Trudel <email address hidden> ]
  * updated pkcs11 smartcard patch
    - updated debian/patches/lp120363_smartcard_pkcs11.patch
  * add new 802.1x symbols to libnm-util1.symbols
    - update debian/libnm-util1.symbols

  [ Alexander Sack <email address hidden> ]
  * drop cherry-pick now applied upstream
    - delete debian/patches/lp436884.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * extend apport hook to also append /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
    - update debian/source_network-manager.py

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:46:01 +0200

With me it also affects in the 32bit version.

this bug still in RC

You're right!

It has changed. The original bug is gone (see original quoted error), but Network-Manager still cannot connect.

... to a DSL connection that is.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 02:18:01PM -0000, James.Dedon wrote:
> ... to a DSL connection that is.
>

# in first terminal
tail -n -f /var/log/syslog

# in a different terminal
sudo stop network-manager
export NM_PPP_DEBUG=1
sudo NetworkManager --no-daemon

and then connect and post what you get in syslog?

 - Alexander

Sorry, I reinstalled Jaunty before you posted that. My wife was really pushing me to fix it, because we use this laptop as a wifi access point.

I had the same problem that James had.
I'll attach my syslog and nm debug info.

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 08:46:32AM -0000, Pavel Mikhalyev wrote:
>
> ** Attachment added: "nm_debug.txt"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34350264/nm_debug.txt
>

what special settings do you do in dsl tab? i tried creating a
dsl connection and it worked without problems. I tried all auto and
also explicitly setting a specific dns server in IPv4Settings tab.

 - Alexander

Absolutely nothing special. Just put my username (contains '@') and password. With NM 0.7.x this combination worked like a charm.

Ubuntu 9.10 RC, NM 0.8~a~git.20091013t193206.679d548-0ubuntu1, if it matters.

Can confirm Pavel Mikhalyev message.

$dpkg --list |grep network-manager
ii network-manager 0.8~a~git.20091016t185227.8d65515-0ubuntu2~nmt1
ii network-manager-gnome 0.8~a~git.20091027t225857.e4cd853-0ubuntu2~nmt1
ii network-manager-pptp 0.8~a~git.20091013t190309.0c39c37-0ubuntu1

dsl connection with pppoeconf is ok.

Also some strange thing: system do not ask every time to access network-manager for my secure stored password (i'm press allow only one time)
I'm try to connect manually and it works with string from syslog.txt exept "plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pppd-plugin.so"
I'm set default router to ppp0 by hand and now write this messege. Log of connection in attach, also store password in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets for authentification

Thanks!

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 06:56:43PM -0000, Pavel Mikhalyev wrote:
> Absolutely nothing special. Just put my username (contains '@') and
> password. With NM 0.7.x this combination worked like a charm.
>
> Ubuntu 9.10 RC, NM 0.8~a~git.20091013t193206.679d548-0ubuntu1, if it
> matters.

maybe you marked the connection as "available to all users"? If not, try without
(or with it).

 - Alexander

Try without this mark, with it, even standing on my head - NM doesn't connect anyway.
This problem exist for at least 3 LP users and I can provide additional information if needed. I hope you set it out, maybe you don't mind comment #26 (seems like Misha get some success with it).

This bug still exists in the official release of 9.10. I just spent the past hour trying every possible set of options in the network manager, just to make sure. No luck connecting to the DSL.

I did a clean install of 9.10. Before hand I had 8.10, and it worked fine, but I wiped the partition before installing the official 9.10 release. If it matters, I have a separate home partition, and it is encrypted.

I'm about to restart back to 9.10 and try ppoeconf, hopefully it will work as a temporary fix.

On 9.10 now:
pppoe does indeed work properly, but the network manager fails. Again, this is the official release version of 9.10.

If any debugging information is desired, post and I'll include it.

I get the same bug in 9.10 final release :

Try to connect with DSL, enter Username and Password... and do not work (it worked with ubuntu 9.04 this way). Furthermore, if I check "Enable for all users" and click "Ok", then, if I want to edit again the connection, I get a message : "Insufficient privilege".

To connect with PPPoE, I used sudo pppoeconf in a terminal.

yes i have the same problem too. I have already installed Karmic release, but I can not make DSL connection.

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:59:12AM -0000, agitdd99 wrote:
> yes i have the same problem too. I have already installed Karmic
> release, but I can not make DSL connection.
>
> ** Attachment added: "syslog"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34639740/syslog.txt
>

This bug was about the error in subject line when editing DSL connections ....
does anyone see that particular error still?

besides that we fixed DSL on trunk now, the builds should be available in a few
hours for testing here:

   https://edge.launchpad.net/~network-manager/+archive/trunk

so .... i think what you still see here is really bug 432205 ... and not what this bug
was about ...

Please verify (and read the other bug).

 - Alexander

I can verify that the error message that the original bug was filed as was fixed when you released the updated package in the trunk repo. I assumed that the ongoing problem had something to do with the original bug. 432205 is the existing bug that I had.

I think that the community should issue some sort of instructions that is easy to find either in ubuntuforums (not all that easy to find info in it anymore)0 or the wiki so people can figure out a way to work around and update their systems so PPPoe works with Network-Manager.

we will roll an update to karmic-updates once we have accumulated (~1 week) a few more fixes. for now point them to the trunk ppa to get a cure.

updated title so this bug does not mislead users believing that this is the bug they see when they cannot use DSL ...

> Furthermore, if I check "Enable for all users" and click "Ok", then,
>if I want to edit again the connection, I get a message : "Insufficient privilege".

I have the same.
Can't connect to the internet.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Maverick Meerkat. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

If you're running Karmic, please see above and use the same procedure (getting the ISOs from http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download) to test this with the current latest release, Lucid Lynx. This bug should be fixed in this version as well.

I haven't had any problems with this bug in Lucid. Everything works fine with Network Manager for DSL, WiFi, and LAN connections.

Marking as Fix Released as per the report in comment #39.

If you still notice issues, since there's a high probability it's really a very different problem, please file a new bug and comment here with the bug number so we can take a look. Thanks!