[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#552794: kvpnc: DCOP communications error

[Matt Wilkins]

Package: kvpnc
Version: 0.9.0-1
Severity: important


When starting kvpnc from the KDE menu, I am asked for root's password.
After entering it I receive this popup error message:

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DCOP communications error (kvpnc)

There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE.
the message returned by the system was:

Could not read network connection list.
/root/.DCOPserver_solace.homeunix.net__0

Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!
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and from the following one can see that root is not running a
dcopserver:

solace:~# ps auwx | grep dcop
mwilkins  3478  0.0  0.1  25548  2640 ?        S    Oct22   0:00 dcopserver [kdeinit] --nosid
root     28188  0.0  0.0   3364   732 pts/2    S+   19:14   0:00 grep dcop

kvpnc does start up fine though, and I can make my pptp connection
fine, but it is impossible to disconnect the connection which is a
major PITA.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages kvpnc depends on:
ii  kdebase-bin      4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6        core binaries for the KDE base mod
ii  kdelibs4c2a      4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny2 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libc6            2.7-18                  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcrypt11      1.4.1-1                 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libqt3-mt        3:3.3.8b-5+b1           Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libstdc++6       4.3.2-1.1               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  menu             2.1.41                  generates programs menu for all me
ii  module-init-tool 3.4-1                   tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  net-tools        1.60-22                 The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  psmisc           22.6-1                  Utilities that use the proc filesy

kvpnc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages kvpnc suggests:
ii  iptables                1.4.2-6          administration tools for packet fi
pn  openct                  <none>           (no description available)
pn  opensc                  <none>           (no description available)
ii  openssl                 0.9.8g-15+lenny5 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
pn  openswan                <none>           (no description available)
pn  openvpn                 <none>           (no description available)
ii  pptp-linux              1.7.2-1          Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol 
pn  racoon                  <none>           (no description available)
pn  vpnc                    <none>           (no description available)
pn  xl2tpd                  <none>           (no description available)

-- no debconf information