[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#755402: network-manager: All ppp connections (dsl or gsm) fail

[Francesco]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.9.10.0-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,


  I noticed the problem after last update, previous version of NM was not affected

     ineffective)?
  For dsl connection I received "failed" message when using the plasma plugin in kde,
when the connection is invoked via "pon" (configured with pppoeconfig) it works regularly
and create a connection to ppp0 (a new connection is created at every pon due to parameters
change). I tried with nmcli, for example:

$ LANG=C nmcli con
NAME                 UUID                                  TYPE            DEVICE 
N900                 d8281e2e-6754-4aef-a5cd-4982653d24a7  802-3-ethernet  --     
Wind - Non-business  c1635f50-887d-444b-9b61-8b77d8839292  gsm             --     
PuruPuru Network     8891490a-e907-47f8-b2c3-915bf4443010  bluetooth       --     
Alice                6202b767-f969-45e8-9f8c-46c3773fe502  pppoe           --     
ppp0                 b0d72434-e4c7-4d69-aa1a-1f48a7bdc154  generic         ppp0   
Alice IPv6           6441fa55-ca59-47b5-a28b-0fc2e6ac232a  pppoe           --     
Modem                bd214c10-059a-42e2-8e70-c0bd414ef338  802-3-ethernet  eth1   
ppp0                 889de5b2-defd-4a90-af94-b25958dfb07f  generic         --     

$ LANG=C nmcli con up 6441fa55-ca59-47b5-a28b-0fc2e6ac232a
Error: Connection activation failed.

  For dsl the message is a generic "activation failed", I think you'll need more debugging.

  For gsm connection it seems NM can't handle the modem, even if it's correctly seen:

$ LANG=C nmcli dev
DEVICE   TYPE      STATE        CONNECTION 
eth1     ethernet  connected    Modem      
ppp0     unknown   connected    ppp0       
usb0     ethernet  unavailable  --         
ttyACM0  gsm       unavailable  --         
eth0     ethernet  unmanaged    --         
lo       loopback  unmanaged    --         
usbpn0   unknown   unmanaged    --  

  I thought it was a modem manager fault, indeed it seems to work correctly:

$ mmcli -L

Found 1 modems:
        /org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/Modem/1 [Nokia] Nokia N900

$ mmcli -m /org/freedesktop/ModemManager1/Modem/0 --3gpp-scan

Found 1 networks:
22288 - I WIND (umts, current)

  In nmcli the device seems to be unavailable, but it works when using wvdial,
when trying to connect I receive:

$ LANG=C nmcli con up c1635f50-887d-444b-9b61-8b77d8839292
Error: Connection activation failed: Connection 'Wind - Non-business' is not available on the device ttyACM0 at this time.

  If needed I can give more details




-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.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                   1.8.6-1
ii  init-system-helpers    1.19
ii  isc-dhcp-client        4.3.0+dfsg-1
ii  libc6                  2.19-7
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.8.6-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.102-1
ii  libgcrypt11            1.5.3-4
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.40.0-3
ii  libgnutls-deb0-28      3.2.15-3
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         204-14
ii  libmm-glib0            1.2.0-1
ii  libndp0                1.3-1
ii  libnewt0.52            0.52.17-1
ii  libnl-3-200            3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-genl-3-200       3.2.24-2
ii  libnl-route-3-200      3.2.24-2
ii  libnm-glib4            0.9.10.0-1
ii  libnm-util2            0.9.10.0-1
ii  libpam-systemd         204-14
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-6
ii  libreadline6           6.3-6
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.46.0-2
ii  libsystemd-daemon0     204-14
ii  libsystemd-login0      204-14
ii  libuuid1               2.20.1-5.8
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13
ii  policykit-1            0.105-6
ii  udev                   204-14
ii  wpasupplicant          1.1-1

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  crda          1.1.2-1
ii  dnsmasq-base  2.71-1
ii  iptables      1.4.21-2
ii  modemmanager  1.2.0-1
ii  ppp           2.4.6-2

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
no-auto-default=00:11:2f:3f:eb:d2,62:03:B1:BD:67:9F,62:71:D0:AF:1F:7C,F6:71:A4:36:63:03,EA:A9:30:B3:08:D3,
[ifupdown]
managed=false


-- no debconf information