[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#567458: network-manager-gnome: workaround

[Julien Patriarca]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 1.8.10-2
Followup-For: Bug #567458

Hi,

I also face this bug since a couple of days. When I attempt connecting
to my coporate OpenVPN server, I get this message in syslog:

Invalid VPN service type (cannot find authentication binary)

My connection is not setup to be available to every user, nor have I
stored the password for everyone (even if I have tried this 2
"workarounds" to no avail).

The only workaround I have found working, is to launnch nm-applet in a
console, then initiating the connection and it works. I can close the
console it keeps working until I disconnect. I have written down the
password in /etc/Networkmanager/system-connections/VPN with the
auth-user-pass directive, and I still have to launch nm-applet by hand.
Don't know what to do more.

Can I provide you with more logs or info ?

Cheers,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (90, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.12.2-1
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.12.2-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]   0.26.1-3
ii  gnome-shell [polkit-1-auth-agent]             3.26.2-3
ii  libatk1.0-0                                   2.26.1-3
ii  libc6                                         2.26-4
ii  libcairo2                                     1.15.8-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                            2.36.11-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.54.3-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.22.26-2
ii  libjansson4                                   2.10-1
ii  libmm-glib0                                   1.6.8-2
ii  libnm0                                        1.10.2-4
ii  libnma0                                       1.8.10-2
ii  libnotify4                                    0.7.7-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0                                1.40.14-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                           1.40.14-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                                 0.18.5-5
ii  libselinux1                                   2.7-2
ii  network-manager                               1.10.2-4

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring                      3.20.1-2
ii  gnome-shell [notification-daemon]  3.26.2-3
ii  iso-codes                          3.77-1
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info     20170903-1
ii  notification-daemon                3.20.0-2

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
ii  network-manager-openconnect-gnome  1.2.4-1
ii  network-manager-openvpn-gnome      1.8.0-2
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome         <none>
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome         <none>

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