[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1026082: network-manager-gnome: Existing or new vpnc connection cannot be saved

[Sven Geuer]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 1.30.0-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
Tried to edit an existing vpnc connection.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
Ran nm-connection-editor from terminal.
Selected the existing vpnc connection and clicked the edit icon.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
When the editing window opened nm-connection-editor printed this error messages
to stderr:

** Message: 12:46:45.028: Cannot save connection due to error: Invalid setting
General: connection.interface-name: '': interface name must not be empty

In the editing window the save button was displayed grayed out.

Even after changing some of the connection's configuration values the save
button stayed inaccessible.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
One should be able to save the possibly changed configuration.


I also tried to create a new vpnc connection what failed in a similar way.
After
having set the IPSec gateway and the IPSec ID these to message showed up
immediately

** Message: 13:10:50.586: Connection validates and can be saved
** Message: 13:10:50.588: Cannot save connection due to error: Invalid setting
General: connection.interface-name: '': interface name must not be empty

Again the save button stayed inaccessible regardless of any further action.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/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]  1.14.4-1
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.14.4-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]   0.40.0-3
ii  gnome-shell [polkit-1-auth-agent]             43.1-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                   2.46.0-4
ii  libayatana-appindicator3-1                    0.5.91-1
ii  libc6                                         2.36-6
ii  libcairo2                                     1.16.0-6
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                           2.42.10+dfsg-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.74.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.24.35-3
ii  libjansson4                                   2.14-2
ii  libmm-glib0                                   1.20.0-1
ii  libnm0                                        1.40.6-1
ii  libnma0                                       1.10.4-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                                1.50.10+ds-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                           1.50.10+ds-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                                 0.20.5-3
ii  libselinux1                                   3.4-1+b3
ii  network-manager                               1.40.6-1

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme                   3.12.0-5
ii  gnome-keyring                      42.1-1+b1
ii  gnome-shell [notification-daemon]  43.1-2
ii  iso-codes                          4.12.0-1
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info     20221107-1
ii  notification-daemon                3.20.0-4+b1

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
ii  network-manager-openconnect-gnome  1.2.8-3
pn  network-manager-openvpn-gnome      <none>
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome         <none>
ii  network-manager-vpnc-gnome         1.2.8-3

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