[Bug 873856] Re: Wireless network settings lost on Oneiric upgrade

[Alex]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 859373 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/859373

I'm commenting on this bug and not on #859373 as 859373 is mainly about
the network not being available while upgrading.

I was not affected by the upgrade bug,  however I also lost all my
wireless and VPN settings in the KDE network manager. So this should be
treated as a different problem and not marked as a duplicate of #859373.

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Title:
  Wireless network settings lost on Oneiric upgrade

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Release: during upgrade from Kubuntu 11.04 to 11.10

  Package: Reported against update-manager because that's what the "had
  a bug during upgrade" instructions say to do. For all I know the
  problem could be in KDE's network manager.

  Expected: Upgrading to Oneiric will retain (or migrate) wireless
  network settings. If the network has to go down for any reason,
  "installer" packages will download their extra files while the network
  is up.

  Observed: The wireless network went down. This caused all manner of
  alarming, if harmless, errors when certain packages that needed a
  network connection failed to get it. Upon reboot, I found that the
  problem was that my wireless network settings had been lost entirely.
  They still existed in KWallet, but I had to reenter them myself (and I
  noticed that the format in the wallet was different to before). After
  doing this, apt-get -f fixed the problem packages.

  The packages that needed a network connection were:
   * firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
   * flashplugin-downloader
   * flashplugin-installer

  Workaround: Presumably, having a non-wireless network connection would
  avoid the install problems.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: update-manager (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Oct 14 13:26:47 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (0 days ago)

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