Re: essid with spaces?

[Lachlan Pease <lachlan pease id au>]

I'm seeing this behaviour too (the exact same - nm-applet crashing and
then restarting on the appropriate connection status), on my school's
APs.
The APs in question are both Apple Airports, named "MKIS ITS" and "MKIS
Library" - if I get the time tomorrow, I'll do some debugging (against
an old build, but the cause should be the same).

Regards,
Lachlan Pease

On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 22:16 -0500, Will Dyson wrote:
> On 1/22/06, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 21:35 -0500, Will Dyson wrote:
> > > On 1/20/06, Ian Campbell <ian dal-acm ca> wrote:
> > > >         A wireless network I use has a space in the essid. Every time
> > > > NetworkManager tries to associate to it, it crashes. The association
> > > > succeeds, NetworkManager restarts, and everything continues as it was
> > > > before.
> > > >
> > > >         Is there any reason NetworkManager would crash on a network with a
> > > > space in the essid?
> > >
> > > Resend to the list:
> >
> > > I also see this behavior, only on networks with a space embedded in
> > > the ESSID. I'm running a CVS checkout from yesterday (1/21)
> >
> > Is there any chance that the problem is a non-UTF8 character rather than
> > a space?  I checked out spaces today with my WRT54G and NM appeared to
> > deal with them just fine.  It's known to crash with some non-UTF8 ESSIDs
> > though.  What's the essid that crashes for you?
> 
> "dyson homenet" is what it was associating to when the applet was
> crashing tonight at my parents' place. It didn't appear to be
> detecting any other networks either.
> 
> I just realized it was not clear I'm seeing applet crash only, not the
> networkmanager daemon.
> 
> When associating to that network, the applet would crash when the
> association was complete and the icon was about to switch to the
> "connected, displaying signal strength" mode. The interface remained
> up, and nothing interesting is reported by the daemon to the syslog.
> 
> --
> Will Dyson
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