[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#434336: network-manager: NM drops some information

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.4-8+b1
Severity: important

I'm using network-manager and network-manager-vpnc to connect to my VPN
network.

I've been using vpnc and it has been working perfectly for months.

network-manager-vpnc connected properly with a difference of only one
thing. It was dropping a list of new name servers which were sent by the
DHCP server when the VPN connection was being established.

This caused my box to not be able to talk to the VPN network (because the
name servers were not updated).

Here are the relevant logs:

Jul 23 13:21:27 learner NetworkManager: <information>^IVPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' signaled state change 6 -> 3.
Jul 23 13:21:27 learner NetworkManager: <information>^IVPN Activation (NetApp) Stage 3 of 4 (Connect) reply received.
Jul 23 13:21:27 learner NetworkManager: <information>^IVPN Activation (NetApp) Stage 4 of 4 (IP Config Get) timeout scheduled...
Jul 23 13:21:27 learner NetworkManager: <information>^IVPN Activation (NetApp) Stage 3 of 4 (Connect) complete, waiting for IP configuration...
Jul 23 13:21:27 learner kernel: tun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Jul 23 13:21:30 learner NetworkManager: <information>^IVPN Activation (NetApp) Stage 4 of 4 (IP Config Get) reply received.
Jul 23 13:21:31 learner NetworkManager: <information>^IDHCP returned name servers but system has disabled dynamic modification!
Jul 23 13:21:31 learner NetworkManager: <information>^IVPN Activation (NetApp) Stage 4 of 4 (IP Config Get) complete.
Jul 23 13:21:31 learner NetworkManager: <information>^IVPN Activation (NetApp) successful.
Jul 23 13:21:31 learner NetworkManager: <information>^IVPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' signaled state change 3 -> 4.

In the logs, the lines are very clear. I tried looking into NM but
couldn't find anything that talks about Dynamic Modification.

Thanks,
Ritesh

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (450, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-debian (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.104        add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                        1.1.1-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd                      2.0-5        D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                         0.5.9.1-2    Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                    0.6.8        high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                     20070313-1   Professional tools to control the 
ii  iputils-arping              3:20070202-1 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to
ii  libc6                       2.6-2        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.1.1-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.74-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                 1.2.4-2      LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.12.12-1+b1 The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0               1.4-2        library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                     0.5.9.1-2    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                     29~pre22-1   Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1-pre6                 1.0~pre6-5   Library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0                 0.6.4-8+b1   network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-23.1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant               0.6.0-1      Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-kde    1:0.2~svn678822-3 KDE systray applet for controlling

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