[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1089006: fails to connect when VPN is activated via nmcli

[Simon Richter]

Package: network-manager-pptp
Version: 1.2.12-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: sjr at debian.org

Hi,

I have a PPTP VPN configured in N-M.

If I activate it from nm-applet, I get asked for the keyring password,
then the connection is established.

If I activate it from nmcli ("nmcli connection up VPN3"), I get a
graphical prompt for the keyring password, as with the applet, but
activation fails because a secret is unavailable, and --ask was not
given.

With --ask, it asks for the keyring password on the shell (despite the
keyring being unlocked already) and then asks for the VPN PSK on the
shell (despite that being saved in the VPN config), then still fails to
activate, with "dbus: failure: connect-failed (1)".

After establishing the connection once from nm-applet I can use nmcli to
activate and deactivate it.

   Simon

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.8
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-28-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages network-manager-pptp depends on:
ii  libc6            2.36-9+deb12u9
ii  libglib2.0-0     2.74.6-2+deb12u5
ii  libnm0           1.42.4-1
ii  network-manager  1.42.4-1
ii  ppp              2.4.9-1+1.1+b1
ii  pptp-linux       1.10.0-1

network-manager-pptp recommends no packages.

network-manager-pptp suggests no packages.

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