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FS#22659 - [kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement] pptp broken since update to KDE SC 4.6

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by André Fettouhi (A.Fettouhi) - Saturday, 29 January 2011, 17:03 GMT
Last edited by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Saturday, 05 March 2011, 10:28 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 5
Private No

Details

Description:
I have a StrongVPN subscription which I use daily but after updating my KDE to 4.6 a few days ago I can't connect anymore. I'm using networkmanager to connect to the vpn. Everytime I click it now nothing happens. I've tried also kvpnc and doesn't work there either. In this case it does an infinite loop connecting and disconnecting and there is no way to stop it other than killing the gui.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
1. Set up vpn (pptp)
2. Try to connect
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Closed by  Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Saturday, 05 March 2011, 10:28 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Ali (curs30d) - Monday, 31 January 2011, 10:43 GMT
Same problem here :(
Comment by André Fettouhi (A.Fettouhi) - Monday, 31 January 2011, 10:44 GMT
Great that i'm not the only one :). Not great that we are having this issue :(.
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Wednesday, 02 February 2011, 23:06 GMT
I can't debug on this...do you have some output? Could be related to networkmanager?
Comment by André Fettouhi (A.Fettouhi) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 04:10 GMT
There is no output from the guis. Where do I find the output from networkmanager? Is it in /var/log/messages.log?
Comment by André Fettouhi (A.Fettouhi) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 08:17 GMT
Feb 3 09:14:43 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> Starting VPN service 'pptp'...
Feb 3 09:14:43 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> VPN service 'pptp' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 3705
Feb 3 09:14:43 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> VPN service 'pptp' appeared; activating connections
Feb 3 09:14:43 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1
Feb 3 09:14:43 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3
Feb 3 09:14:43 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> VPN connection 'StrongVPN New York' (Connect) reply received.
Feb 3 09:14:43 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <warn> VPN connection 'StrongVPN New York' failed to connect: 'No VPN secrets!'.
Feb 3 09:14:43 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <warn> error disconnecting VPN: Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
Feb 3 09:14:43 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> Policy set 'Auto eth0' (eth0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS.
Feb 3 09:14:47 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> VPN service 'pptp' disappeared
Feb 3 09:14:50 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> Starting VPN service 'pptp'...
Feb 3 09:14:50 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> VPN service 'pptp' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 3708
Feb 3 09:14:50 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> VPN service 'pptp' appeared; activating connections
Feb 3 09:14:50 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1
Feb 3 09:14:50 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3
Feb 3 09:14:50 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> VPN connection 'StrongVPN New York' (Connect) reply received.
Feb 3 09:14:50 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <warn> VPN connection 'StrongVPN New York' failed to connect: 'No VPN secrets!'.
Feb 3 09:14:50 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <warn> error disconnecting VPN: Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
Feb 3 09:14:50 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> Policy set 'Auto eth0' (eth0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS.
Feb 3 09:14:55 andre NetworkManager[3129]: <info> VPN service 'pptp' disappeared
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 08:27 GMT
Ionut, IMHO the bug is in networkmanager. Do you know something about?
Comment by André Fettouhi (A.Fettouhi) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 08:35 GMT
Could it maybe be kdewallet that is causing the problem?. I see an entry for Network Management but under passwords it's empty.
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 08:36 GMT
export/backup your wallet, then remove it and do a test
Comment by André Fettouhi (A.Fettouhi) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 08:46 GMT
Tried it. It just adds an entry but never asks for the password to the vpn service.
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 08:47 GMT
Unassigned Ionut, the bug seems to be in KWallet
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 09:02 GMT
you could try to downgrade kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement too.
Comment by André Fettouhi (A.Fettouhi) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 09:14 GMT
Damn it, I just cleared out my pacman cache so I don't have the old kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement from 4.5.5.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 09:29 GMT
@Andrea it could me. Don't use kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement and use instead network-manager-applet. The plasma one is kinda garbage
Comment by André Fettouhi (A.Fettouhi) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 09:41 GMT
I just tried to use network-manager-applet instead and it fails also. So this is a networkmanager bug.
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 09:51 GMT
  • Field changed: Summary (pptp broken since update to KDE SC 4.6 → [networkmanager] pptp broken since update to KDE SC 4.6)
  • Task reassigned to Ionut Biru (wonder)
then try to downgrade networkmanager
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 09:54 GMT
dude, how can it be nm? That wasn't touch for a long time and he said that it doesn't work since kde 4.6
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 09:56 GMT
maybe he updated nm during the big KDE update, also doesn't work with the "awesome" nm-applet
Comment by André Fettouhi (A.Fettouhi) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 09:59 GMT
Networkmanager was updated on the 13th of january

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/networkmanager/

so before KDE 4.6. I mostly been using my vpn connection on my Boxee Box and not so much my PC lately.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 10:05 GMT
here is my opinion.

it says 'No VPN secrets!' which mean that it can't read the previous password that you set up or doesn't pass it to the service.
try to remove the network and re add it.

when you tried nm-applet did you relogin? the gnome-keyring manager started to pop out? is networkmanager-pptp available in the vpn tab when you add a network?
Comment by André Fettouhi (A.Fettouhi) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 10:35 GMT
Yes, the gnome-keyring manager did pop-up and yes the pptp option is available. Tried to readd just now and it still fails.
Comment by Ossi Taatila (osmoossi) - Thursday, 03 February 2011, 21:09 GMT
Not working for me neither, nothing happens :(
Comment by Sunny Honey (SunnyHoney) - Monday, 07 February 2011, 19:33 GMT
So guys,

I solved it:
It's a LITTLE workaround and it's a bit unsecure but it works! (;
If you use kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement do this:

Click on the KNetworkmanager icon in the system tray -> „Manage Connections“ -> On the left side there is the „Other“-Menu, click it -> „Store connection secrets“ -> set it to: „Do not store (always prompt)“.

I hope it works for you (;
Comment by André Fettouhi (A.Fettouhi) - Monday, 07 February 2011, 20:06 GMT
I can confirm that SunnyHoney's workaround does indeed work. It is not a fix to the problem at hand but it works... ;)
Comment by Asem (asem) - Friday, 18 February 2011, 14:05 GMT
Thanks SunnyHoney for the workaround , it works
but now the question whose bug it is the applet or kwallet??
Comment by André Fettouhi (A.Fettouhi) - Saturday, 05 March 2011, 08:31 GMT
Problem with storing the password is still present in KDE 4.6.1.
Comment by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Saturday, 05 March 2011, 09:48 GMT
are you using networkmanagement-git20110304 too?
Comment by André Fettouhi (A.Fettouhi) - Saturday, 05 March 2011, 10:11 GMT
Just tried it with networkmanagement-git20110304 and it works correctly now. I switched to storing password "In file" and that works fine now!. So this seems to be fixed now!

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