[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#644738: network-manager-gnome: Applet forgets VPN usernames/passwords after many connection attempts

[Christoph Reiter]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.9.0-2
Severity: normal

I waited for the VPN server to let me in again and did a

watch -e 'nmcli con up uuid 609bd441-de2d-4654-b798-2154cd3a5882; [ $? -ne 0 ]'

which tried to connect about 800 times (every 2 seconds). After some time it
started failing because there was no password/username given. The VPN
preferences dialog showed no password/username anymore. Setting it again had no
effect, reopening.. empty again.

Restarting network-manager didn't help.

..xsession-errors showed many:

** (nm-applet:7212): WARNING **: Failed to create pipe for communicating with
child process (Too many open files)
** (nm-applet:7212): WARNING **: Failed to create pipe for communicating with
child process (Too many open files)
** (nm-applet:7212): WARNING **: Failed to create pipe for communicating with
child process (Too many open files)
** (nm-applet:7212): WARNING **: Failed to create pipe for communicating with
child process (Too many open files)
** (nm-applet:7212): WARNING **: Failed to create pipe for communicating with
child process (Too many open files)
** (nm-applet:7212): WARNING **: Failed to create pipe for communicating with
child process (Too many open files)

Restarting the machine made it work again.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11             1.4.16-1  
ii  gconf2               2.32.4-1  
ii  gnome-icon-theme     3.0.0-4   
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.2.0-1   
ii  libc6                2.13-21   
ii  libcairo2            1.10.2-6.1
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.4.16-1  
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2     0.94-4    
ii  libfontconfig1       2.8.0-3   
ii  libfreetype6         2.4.6-2   
ii  libgconf2-4          2.32.4-1  
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.24.0-1  
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.28.6-1  
ii  libgnome-bluetooth7  2.30.0-3  
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.0.0-2   
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.4-3  
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1      0.9.0-2   
ii  libnm-glib4          0.9.0-2   
ii  libnm-util2          0.9.0-2   
ii  libnotify4           0.7.4-1   
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.28.4-3  
ii  network-manager      0.9.0-2   
ii  policykit-1-gnome    0.102-2   

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-bluetooth                        2.30.0-3  
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring [libpam-keyring]  3.0.3-2   
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info         20110806-1
ii  notification-daemon                    0.7.2-1   
ii  notify-osd [notification-daemon]       0.9.30-1  

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
ii  network-manager-openvpn-gnome  <none> 
ii  network-manager-pptp-gnome     <none> 
ii  network-manager-vpnc-gnome     0.9.0-2

-- no debconf information