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network-manager-applet package

Cannot connect to VPN since upgrade to gnome-shell 3.1.92

Bug #863120 reported by أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)
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Bug Description

Hello,

  Connection to VPN used to work till gnome-shell 3.1.91.1, yet since I upgraded to gnome-shell 3.1.92, connection to VPN does not work. When I check /var/log/syslog, I find this message:

Sep 30 10:50:53 ants NetworkManager[1225]: <error> [1317372653.332643] [nm-vpn-connection.c:882] get_secrets_cb(): Failed to request VPN secrets #2: (6) No agents were available for this request.

Also, whenever I try to edit the VPN settings (from Network Settings), I find the password fields empty.

The same problem persists in gnome-shell 3.2.0

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 30 10:51:08 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-04 (26 days ago)

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أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote :
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

We disabled nm-applet autostart in gnome-shell while trying to fix another bug, which unfortunately breaks your VPN. Try running nm-applet. For a more permanent workaround, remove the AutostartCondition line from /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) (aelmahmoudy) wrote : Re: [Bug 863120] Re: Cannot connect to VPN since upgrade to gnome-shell 3.1.92

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 09:34:35AM -0000, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> We disabled nm-applet autostart in gnome-shell while trying to fix
> another bug, which unfortunately breaks your VPN. Try running nm-applet.
> For a more permanent workaround, remove the AutostartCondition line from
> /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop.
 ---end quoted text---

Is that the bug that had to do with attempt to disable wifi, didn't
actually disable it ? I I had that issue too, so I killed nm-applet.
But, if I remember correctly (unfortunately I am not very sure), VPN did
still work even when I killed nm-applet.

Anyways, I did run nm-applet now, and the VPN does work.

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 ‎أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)
  Digital design engineer
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Arik Kfir (arikkfir) wrote :

Running nm-applet fixed this issue for me - hoping this will get a more permanent fix in time for the 11.10 release.

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Moving to network-manager-gnome since this isn't actually GNOME Shell's fault.

affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) → network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

network-manager-applet (0.9.1.90-0ubuntu5) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/04-autostart.patch:
    - revert: disable autostart when using gnome-shell (LP: #863120)
 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:34:44 -0400

Changed in network-manager-applet (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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