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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 08.10.2011 18:20, schrieb 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.
> 

Are you sure this is a network-manager-gnome problem? It looks like your max
number of open files was exhausted which actually led to nm fail to connect.


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