[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#517208: Bug#517208: network-manager-pptp: Crashes when adding a new VPN connection

[Michael Biebl]

reassign 517208 network-manager-gnome
forcemerge 507733 517208
thanks

James Healy wrote:
> Package: network-manager-pptp
> Version: 0.7.0.97-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Since upgrading the set of network-manager packages this morning to 0.7,
> I can no longer add or manage PPTP VPNs.
> 
> When I attempt to run nm-connection-editor from the command line, it
> segfaults when I click on the "Add" button of the VPN tab.
> 
> [jh at gaz ~]$ nm-connection-editor 
> [WARN 17637] polkit-error.c:143:polkit_error_get_error_message(): error != NULL
>  Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
> 
>  ** (nm-connection-editor:17637): WARNING **: Failed to initialize PolicyKit context: (null)
>  [WARN 17637] polkit-error.c:156:polkit_error_free(): error != NULL Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
>   Segmentation fault
> 


See #507733 for more details. You need to have policykit (and policykit-gnome)
installed (recommended packages).

Michael


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