[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#797396: network-manager-openvpn: Can't connect to VPN, user nm-openvpn missing

[Tom Rauchenwald]

Package: network-manager-openvpn
Version: 1.0.6-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Hi,

after upgrading network-manager-openvpn to 1.0.6-1 I can't connect to
a VPN anymore. The relevant part of the log:

Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <info>  Starting VPN service 'openvpn'...
Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <info>  VPN service 'openvpn' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn), PID 1338
Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <info>  VPN service 'openvpn' appeared; activating connections
Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <info>  VPN plugin state changed: starting (3)
Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <info>  VPN connection 'xxx' (ConnectInteractive) reply received.
Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <warn>  VPN connection 'xxx' failed to connect interactively: 'User 'nm-openvpn' not found, check NM_OPENVPN_USER.'.
Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <info>  (enp2s0): device state change: secondaries -> failed (reason 'secondary-connection-failed') [90 120 54]
Aug 30 13:22:02 orphu NetworkManager[572]: <info>  NetworkManager state is now DISCONNECTED

It seems that a user nm-openvpn is now needed.

As a workaround, I created this user (and put it in the group
nm-openvpn), now everything works fine. I suspect said user should be
created at package install time.

If the bug severity is not appropriate, please downgrade it accordingly.

Thanks,
-tom


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages network-manager-openvpn depends on:
ii  libc6             2.19-19
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.8.20-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.102-1
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.44.1-1.1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1   1.0.6-1
ii  libnm-glib4       1.0.6-1
ii  libnm-util2       1.0.6-1
ii  openvpn           2.3.7-1

network-manager-openvpn recommends no packages.

network-manager-openvpn suggests no packages.

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