[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#784896: network-manager-pptp-gnome: Unable to connect to VPN from GNOME Flashback session

[Jeffrey van Pelt]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Followup-For: Bug #784896

Dear Maintainer,

This only affects GNOME flashback, but not only VPN:

The problem was that when I wanted to connect to a WiFi network (which
was of course password protected) it started out by not picking up the
passwords I had saved in my keyring. Instead it produced the following
error: "(1) Creating object for path
'/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/1' failed in
libnm-glib." When I opened the network's profile, entered the password
it did connect. Although only once.

Second, when I wanted to connect a VPN profile, which was set to always
ask the password, the applet didn't produce the dialog box in which I
could enter the password required. I was not able to find any error
related to this.

Workaround:
To resolve this I tried to install the network-manager-gnome package
from unstable (1.0.0-3) and after I restarted my machine, presto!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                                     1.8.16-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.22.0-1
ii  gconf-service                                3.2.6-3
ii  gnome-icon-theme                             3.12.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-18
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.0-2.1
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.8.16-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.102-1
ii  libgconf-2-4                                 3.2.6-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.42.1-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0                            3.12.0-1+b1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.14.5-1
ii  libmm-glib0                                  1.4.0-1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1                              0.9.10.0-7
ii  libnm-glib4                                  0.9.10.0-7
ii  libnm-gtk0                                   1.0.2-1
ii  libnm-util2                                  0.9.10.0-7
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.8-3
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.18-1+b1
ii  mate-polkit [policykit-1-gnome]              1.8.0+dfsg1-4
ii  network-manager                              1.0.2-2
ii  policykit-1-gnome                            0.105-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring                                   3.14.0-1+b1
ii  iso-codes                                       3.57-1
ii  mate-notification-daemon [notification-daemon]  1.8.1-3
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info                  20140317-1
ii  notification-daemon                             0.7.6-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
pn  network-manager-openconnect-gnome  <none>
ii  network-manager-openvpn-gnome      0.9.10.0-1
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome         <none>
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome         <none>

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