[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#743965: network-manager: vpnc (through dispatcher) stopped working with latest NM update

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.8.8-5
Severity: normal

I prefer connecting to VPN using the dispatcher framework. It allows me
to use a bash script, through which I can loop and check if the VPN
connection dropped. This had been working flawlessly for months until
the recent update.

Something in the recent updates has broken the VPN service (or maybe the
dispatcher use cases). Relevant system logs are:

pr  9 01:12:27 localhost vpnc[2108]: select: Interrupted system call
Apr  9 01:12:27 localhost vpnc[2108]: terminated by signal: 15
Apr  9 01:12:27 localhost systemd[1]: Reloading LSB: start and stop the
Postfix Mail Transport Agent.
Apr  9 01:12:27 localhost postfix/master[5204]: reload -- version
2.11.0, configuration /etc/postfix
Apr  9 01:12:27 localhost postfix[2178]: Reloading Postfix
configuration...done.
Apr  9 01:12:27 localhost systemd[1]: Reloaded LSB: start and stop the
Postfix Mail Transport Agent.
Apr  9 01:12:27 localhost avahi-daemon[1993]: Withdrawing workstation
service for tun0.
Apr  9 01:12:27 localhost NetworkManager[25258]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown:
devices removed (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/tun0, iface: tun0)
Apr  9 01:12:27 localhost systemd[1]: Stopping ifup for tun0...
Apr  9 01:12:27 localhost ifdown[2197]: /sbin/ifdown: interface tun0 not
configured
Apr  9 01:12:27 localhost systemd[1]: Stopped ifup for tun0.
Apr  9 01:12:28 localhost ntpd[2424]: Deleting interface #115 tun0,
10.74.230.201#123, interface stats: received=0, sent=0, dropped=0,
active_time=6 secs
Apr  9 01:12:28 localhost ntpd[2424]: peers refreshed


Please note that if I manually (by hand) run the vpnc command, it works.
The most relevant bug report I can see in the BTS is: #721714


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  dbus                   1.8.0-3
ii  init-system-helpers    1.18
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.2.4-7
ii  libc6                  2.18-4
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.8.0-3
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.102-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.3-4
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.40.0-2
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.23-13
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         204-8
ii  libmm-glib0            1.0.0-4
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.21-1
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.21-1
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.21-1
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.8.8-5
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.8.8-5
ii  libpam-systemd         204-8
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-4
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.46.0-2
ii  libsystemd-login0      204-8
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.7
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian12
ii  policykit-1            0.105-4
ii  udev                   204-8
ii  wpasupplicant          1.1-1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.68-1
ii  iptables      1.4.21-1
pn  modemmanager  <none>
ii  ppp           2.4.5+git20130610-4

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd  0.6.31-4

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