Network Manager - get_secrets_cb(): Couldn't get connection secrets

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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

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