Well, I got this error today, in /var/log/syslog, when I wanted to connect to wireless network:
Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) starting connection 'MY LEET WLAN' Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 3 -> 4 Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled... Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started... Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled... Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete. Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting... Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 4 -> 5 Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): access point 'MY LEET WLAN' has security, but secrets are required. Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 5 -> 6 Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete. [color=red]Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <WARN> get_secrets_cb(): Couldn't get connection secrets: Rejected send message, 6 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.40097" (uid=0 pid=4874 comm="/usr/sbin/NetworkManager ") interface="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.Connection.Secrets" member="GetSecrets" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings" (uid=1000 pid=10633 comm="nm-applet --sm-disable ")).[/color] Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 6 -> 9 Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) failed for access point (LEETWLAN) Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Marking connection 'MY LEET WLAN' invalid. Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) failed. Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 9 -> 3 Mar 2 08:57:28 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 0).
I was about to reboot until I found this bug. The bug was not my case but some of the responses gave me the solution. By the way, I have Debian but it should be ok for other distributions too, apart from maybe stop/start scripts location. So, this is what I did:
1. Stop Graphical interface (Gnome/KDE/etc), network-manager, dbus:
root@florian:/root # /etc/init.d/network-manager stop * Stopping network connection manager NetworkManager [ ok ]
root@florian:/root # /etc/init.d/dbus stop * Stopping System Tools Backends system-tools-backends [ ok ] * Stopping network connection manager NetworkManager [ ok ] * Stopping bluetooth [ ok ] * Stopping Hardware abstraction layer hald [ ok ] * Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon avahi-daemon [ ok ] * Stopping system message bus dbus [ ok ]
2. Start everything up again:
root@florian:/root # /etc/init.d/dbus start * Starting system message bus dbus [ ok ] * Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon avahi-daemon [ ok ] * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald [ ok ] * Starting bluetooth [ ok ] * Starting network connection manager NetworkManager [ ok ] * Starting System Tools Backends system-tools-backends [ ok ] root@florian:/root # /etc/init.d/network-manager start * Starting network connection manager NetworkManager [ ok ]
3. Problem solved:
Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) starting connection 'MY LEET WLAN' Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 3 -> 4 Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled... Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started... Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled... Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete. Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting... Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 4 -> 5 Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): access point 'MY LEET WLAN' has security, but secrets are required. Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 5 -> 6 Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete. Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state: completed -> disconnected Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled... Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started... Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 6 -> 4 Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled... Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete. Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting... Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change: 4 -> 5 [color=green]Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0/wireless): connection 'MY LEET WLAN' has security, and secrets exist. No new secrets needed.[/color] Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'ssid' value 'LEETWLAN' Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'scan_ssid' value '1' Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'key_mgmt' value 'WPA-EAP' Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'password' value '<omitted>' Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'eap' value 'LEAP' Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'fragment_size' value '1300' Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Config: added 'identity' value 'myusername' Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete. Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Config: set interface ap_scan to 1 Mar 2 09:11:04 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state: disconnected -> scanning
