Re: essid with spaces?

[Lachlan Pease <lachlan pease id au>]

I've reported this bug (with patch included) to the gnome bugzilla.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328390

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:13 +0800, Lachlan Pease wrote:
> Okay, interestingly enough, it crashes inside GConf:
> 
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/bin/nm-applet
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> [New Thread -1224325440 (LWP 19442)]
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread -1224325440 (LWP 19442)]
> gconf_unescape_key (escaped_key=0x8249000 <Address 0x8249000 out of
> bounds>, len=25) at gconf.c:2747
> 2747    gconf.c: No such file or directory.
>         in gconf.c
> (gdb) bt
> #0  gconf_unescape_key (escaped_key=0x8249000 <Address 0x8249000 out of
> bounds>, len=25) at gconf.c:2747
> #1  0x08053f61 in nmwa_gconf_info_notify_callback (client=0x808b818,
> connection_id=4110417923, entry=0x8239b85,
>     user_data=0x8095090) at applet.c:2239
> #2  0xb7377a45 in notify_listeners_callback (listeners=0x808bc20,
>     key=0x821e1d8
> "/system/networking/wireless/networks/MKIS 32@Library/timestamp",
> cnxn_id=136551301,
>     listener_data=0x80f1fa0, user_data=0xbfacf2f0) at
> gconf-client.c:2368
> #3  0xb7366530 in gconf_listeners_notify (listeners=0x808bc20,
>     all_above=0x821e1d8
> "/system/networking/wireless/networks/MKIS 32@Library/timestamp",
>     callback=0xb73779b0 <notify_listeners_callback>,
> user_data=0xbfacf2f0) at gconf-listeners.c:588
> #4  0xb7377b55 in notify_one_entry (client=0x808b818, entry=0x82386f0)
> at gconf-client.c:2393
> #5  0xb7377d9a in notify_idle_callback (data=0x808b818) at
> gconf-client.c:2433
> #6  0xb71fcf21 in g_child_watch_add () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #7  0xb71f9cf4 in g_main_context_dispatch ()
> from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #8  0xb71fb6a4 in g_main_context_acquire ()
> from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #9  0xb71fb9ca in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
> #10 0xb7b70e11 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> 
> I'll find what's wrong and post a patch upstream - will link the
> bugzilla in here when I've done so.
> 
> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 22:12 +0800, Lachlan Pease wrote:
> > 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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