gnome-shell/0001-Fix-connection-to-wifi-APs-from-user-menu-RH-1628263.patch
2018-09-18 16:37:04 -07:00

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From: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:05:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix connection to wifi APs from user menu (RH #1628263)
In recent Fedora 29, connecting to wifi access points from the
user menu (top-right menu) does not work. Clicking the 'Connect'
button just animates it but does nothing else. The logs show an
error "JS ERROR: Error: Expected type utf8 for Argument
'specific_object' but got type 'undefined'".
Looking into this, it seems the problem is these uses of the
`path` property of an NMAccessPoint. NMAccessPoint inherits
from NMObject, and NMObject *does* have a path property:
https://developer.gnome.org/libnm/stable/NMObject.html#NMObject--path
so at first glance this seems fine. But I poked around a bit
using libnm via Python (which goes via introspection, just like
this JS code does), and found that indeed AccessPoint objects
don't seem to have a `path` property there either.
Looking at the libnm code, this actually makes sense, because
the property is marked "(skip)":
https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/blob/master/libnm/nm-object.c#L1291
and the introspection docs suggest that means it should be left
out of introspected output:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GObjectIntrospection/Annotations#Symbol_visibility
I'm a bit concerned that this was only found recently - whereas
the change to use `.path` in gnome-shell dates from October 2017
(d71af5e5) and the property has been marked (skip) in NM since
at least 2016 - but this all seems to add up. The obvious fix is
to replace use of `.path` with `.get_path()`, which returns the
path and is *not* marked (skip) and so *is* available via
introspection. I tested that this works in Python and also did
a test build of gnome-shell with this change and installed it on
an affected system, it does seem to fix the bug.
Signed-off-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com>
---
js/ui/status/network.js | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/js/ui/status/network.js b/js/ui/status/network.js
index b575a726d..d5567dc3c 100644
--- a/js/ui/status/network.js
+++ b/js/ui/status/network.js
@@ -921,10 +921,10 @@ var NMWirelessDialog = new Lang.Class({
// 802.1x-enabled APs require further configuration, so they're
// handled in gnome-control-center
Util.spawn(['gnome-control-center', 'wifi', 'connect-8021x-wifi',
- this._device.get_path(), accessPoints[0].path]);
+ this._device.get_path(), accessPoints[0].get_path()]);
} else {
let connection = new NM.SimpleConnection();
- this._client.add_and_activate_connection_async(connection, this._device, accessPoints[0].path, null, null)
+ this._client.add_and_activate_connection_async(connection, this._device, accessPoints[0].get_path(), null, null)
}
}
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