[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#508966: network-manager: Crashes on VPNC connection

[Daniel Schepler]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.6-2
Severity: important

When I tried to connect to a VPN using VPNC through knetworkmanager,
the network-manager process crashed, and I got this in my syslog:

Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: <info>  Will activate VPN connection 'SNT', service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc', user_name 'snt', vpn_data 'IPSec gateway / gateway.scalable-networks.com / IPSec ID / remoteusers / Xauth username / dschepler', route ''.                                                   
Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: <info>  VPN Activation (SNT) Stage 1 of 4 (Connection Prepare) scheduled...                                             
Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: <info>  VPN Activation (SNT) Stage 1 of 4 (Connection Prepare) ran VPN service daemon org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc (PID 25376)                                                                   
Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: <info>  VPN Activation (SNT) Stage 1 of 4 (Connection Prepare) complete.                                                
Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: <info>  VPN Activation (SNT) Stage 2 of 4 (Connection Prepare Wait) scheduled...                                        
Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' signaled state change 1 -> 6.                                 
Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: <info>  VPN Activation (SNT) Stage 2 of 4 (Connection Prepare Wait) waiting...                                          
Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: <info>  VPN Activation (SNT) Stage 2 of 4 (Connection Prepare Wait) complete.                                           
Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: <info>  VPN Activation (SNT) Stage 3 of 4 (Connect) scheduled...                                                        
Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: <info>  VPN Activation (SNT) Stage 3 of 4 (Connect) sending connect request.                                            
Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: <info>  VPN Activation (SNT) Stage 3 of 4 (Connect) request sent, waiting for reply...                                  
Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' signaled state change 6 -> 3.                                 
Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' signaled state change 3 -> 6.
Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_vpn_service_stop_connection(): (VPN Service org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc): could not stop connection 'SNT' because service was 6.
Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_signal_handler(): Caught signal 6.  Generating backtrace...
Dec 16 16:04:11 frooble NetworkManager: ******************* START **********************************
Dec 16 16:04:12 frooble NetworkManager: (no debugging symbols found)
Dec 16 16:04:12 frooble last message repeated 14 times
Dec 16 16:04:12 frooble NetworkManager: [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Dec 16 16:04:12 frooble NetworkManager: [New Thread 0xb7f526b0 (LWP 2871)]
Dec 16 16:04:12 frooble NetworkManager: [New Thread 0xb6f4fb90 (LWP 3365)]
Dec 16 16:04:12 frooble NetworkManager: [New Thread 0xb7750b90 (LWP 2902)]
Dec 16 16:04:12 frooble NetworkManager: [New Thread 0xb7f51b90 (LWP 2894)]
Dec 16 16:04:12 frooble NetworkManager: (no debugging symbols found)
Dec 16 16:04:13 frooble last message repeated 10 times
Dec 16 16:04:13 frooble NetworkManager: 0xb7f75424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
Dec 16 16:04:13 frooble NetworkManager: ******************* END **********************************

I can connect successfully using vpnc from the command line.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.1-4    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd                        3.0-5      D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                           0.5.11-6   Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                      0.6.8+nmu1 high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                       20080725-2 networking and traffic control too
ii  libc6                         2.7-16     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.1-4    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.76-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.1-2    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.6-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0                 1.4-2      library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                       0.5.11-6   Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                       29-1.1     Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1                        1.1-3      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0                   0.6.6-2    network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.4-3    Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-kde           1:0.2.2-1  KDE systray applet for controlling

network-manager suggests no packages.

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