[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#489802: cannot start vpn from commandline via network-manager

[Folkert van Heusden]

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


cannot start vpn from commandline via network-manager

I've got a vpn configured in network-manager. I can successfully start
it from the network-manager gui.
Now I would like to have it automatically started as soon as
/etc/network/if-up.d/somescript is started.
So what I do from that script is:
su - folkert -c '/usr/local/sbin/NetworkManager.startvpn keetweej.vanheusden.com'
where the /usr/local/sbin/NetworkManager.startvpn is just a python
script that does:
interface.activateVPNConnection() etc. (if you're interested, the script
can be found here: http://blog.mithis.net/archives/ideas/51-nm-autovpn )
Now from what the comments tell me it only works with gutsy, not with
feisty ubuntu. Now I checked but gutsy has an older network-manager than
debian testing. Maybe some patch in ubuntu fixed it? I skimmed through
their patch-list but could not find a relevant vpn-related fix.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.108      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.1-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd                        3.0-4      D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                           0.5.11-2   Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                      0.6.8+nmu1 high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                       20080417-1 networking and traffic control too
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.1-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.76-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.1-1    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.3-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0                 1.4-2      library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                       0.5.11-2   Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                       29-1       Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1                        1.1-2      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0                   0.6.6-1    network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-12     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.3-2    Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.6-2    network management framework (GNOM

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