[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#518509: network-manager: NM-KDE doesn't show the "Secure VPN" Icon when a VPN Connection is established

Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs at researchut.com
Fri Mar 6 18:19:17 UTC 2009


Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.0.99-1
Severity: normal

Hi Michael,

In NM-KDE, I've set a VPN connection. I noticed that when I connect to
VPN, there is no graphical notification shown that I'm connected to the
VPN. But the logs do confirm that the VPN Connection is established.

Here are the logs.

Mar  6 23:37:52 learner NetworkManager: <info>  VPN connection 'MyCorp
BTC - Outside' (IP Config Get) reply received.                                                                                                   
Mar  6 23:37:52 learner NetworkManager: <info>  VPN Gateway:
xx.xx.xx.xx                                   
Mar  6 23:37:52 learner NetworkManager: <info>  Tunnel Device: tun0                                         
Mar  6 23:37:52 learner NetworkManager: <info>  Internal IP4 Address:
10.30.43.49                           
Mar  6 23:37:52 learner NetworkManager: <info>  Internal IP4 Prefix: 23                                     
Mar  6 23:37:52 learner NetworkManager: <info>  Internal IP4
Point-to-Point Address: 10.30.43.49            
Mar  6 23:37:52 learner NetworkManager: <info>  Maximum Segment Size
(MSS): 0                               
Mar  6 23:37:52 learner NetworkManager: <info>  Internal IP4 DNS:
10.73.158.106                             
Mar  6 23:37:52 learner NetworkManager: <info>  Internal IP4 DNS:
10.73.158.107                             
Mar  6 23:37:52 learner NetworkManager: <info>  DNS Domain:
'hq.mycorp.com'                                 
Mar  6 23:37:52 learner NetworkManager: <info>  Login Banner:                                               
Mar  6 23:37:52 learner NetworkManager: <info>
-----------------------------------------
Mar  6 23:37:52 learner NetworkManager: <info>  THIS SYSTEM IS
RESTRICTED TO AUTHORIZED USERS FOR AUTHORIZED USE ONLY.  UNAUTHORIZED
ACCESS IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND MAY BE PUNISHABLE UNDER THE COMPUTER
FRAUD AND ABUSE ACT OF 1986 OR OTHER APPLICABLE LAWS.  IF NOT AUTHORIZED
TO ACCESS THIS SYSTEM, DISCONNECT NOW.  BY CONTINUING, YOU CONSENT TO
YOUR KEYSTROKES AND DATA CONTENT BEING MONITORED.  ALL PERSONS ARE
HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE USE OF THIS SYSTEM CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO
MONITORING AND AUDITING.#012
Mar  6 23:37:52 learner NetworkManager: <info>
-----------------------------------------
Mar  6 23:37:53 learner NetworkManager: <info>  (tun0): writing
resolv.conf to /sbin/resolvconf
Mar  6 23:37:59 learner NetworkManager: <info>  VPN connection 'MyCorp
BTC - Outside' (IP Config Get) complete.
Mar  6 23:37:59 learner NetworkManager: <info>  (tun0): writing
resolv.conf to /sbin/resolvconf
Mar  6 23:37:59 learner dnsmasq[3506]: reading /etc/resolv.conf
Mar  6 23:37:59 learner dnsmasq[3506]: using nameserver 192.168.1.1#53
Mar  6 23:37:59 learner dnsmasq[3506]: using nameserver 10.73.158.107#53
Mar  6 23:37:59 learner dnsmasq[3506]: using nameserver 10.73.158.106#53
Mar  6 23:37:59 learner NetworkManager: <info>  Policy set 'MyCorp BTC -
Outside' (tun0) as default for routing and DNS.
Mar  6 23:37:59 learner NetworkManager: <info>  VPN plugin state
changed: 4
Mar  6 23:37:59 learner nm-dispatcher.action: Script
'/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/01ifupdown' exited with error status
1.


I think since the last script (01ifupdown) failed, NM got the feeling
that the VPN Connection did not succeed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-custom (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                   1.2.12-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcp3-client           3.1.1-6           DHCP client
ii  hal                    0.5.11-8          Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown               0.6.8+nmu1        high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.12-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.80-3            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11            1.4.4-2           LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.18.4-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26            2.6.4-2           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0          1.4-2             library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-8          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnl1                 1.1-3             library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib0            0.7.0.99-1        network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1            0.7.0.99-1        network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-3             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-3             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libtasn1-3             1.8-1             Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libuuid1               1.41.3-1          universally unique id library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-20            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant          0.6.4-3           Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base          2.47-3             A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptables              1.4.2-6            administration tools for packet fi
ii  network-manager-kde   1:0.7~~svn931033-2 KDE systray applet for controlling
ii  policykit             0.9-3              framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp                   2.4.4rel-10.1      Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd                 0.6.23-4   Avahi IPv4LL network address confi

-- no debconf information





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