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<div><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;">Package: network-manager</span><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>

<div><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;">Version: 1.42.4-1</span><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>

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<div><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;">When using wireguard connections with Gnome DE (bookworm) integrated network manager or advanced network config, it always gives an misleading error message notification on disconnect:</span><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>

<div><i><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;">Connection failed</span><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></i></div>

<div><i><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;">Activation of network connection failed</span></i><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>

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<div><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;">The issue is described in the following link, related to how wireguard and vpn connections and their signaling work in network-manager:</span><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>

<div><a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/1405"><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;">https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/1405</span></a><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>

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<div><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;">There's a network-manager upstream fix for this bug, please consider merging it for bookworm:</span><br></div>

<div><a href="https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/network-manager/-/commit/c9f16dacd04cc14ace610ac64f9b14ac76dac130">https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/network-manager/-/commit/c9f16dacd04cc14ace610ac64f9b14ac76dac130</a></div>

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<div><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;">I build network-manager-1.42.4-1 from source with that patch on top, it applies and builds cleanly.</span><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>

<div><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;">wireguard works as intended connecting/disconnecting without any misleading error message notification.</span><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>

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<div><span class="font" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif, sans-serif;">Thanks!</span><br></div>

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