[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#867179: network-manager-gnome: Fails to connect automatically to VPN because nm-applet isn't running

Limewood limewood at free.fr
Tue Jul 4 14:30:15 UTC 2017 

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 1.4.4-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Steps to reproduce:
        - set up a wifi connection with auto-activation in gnome settings
        - set up a vpn connection (only tested with openconnect and openvpn
connections) in gnome settings
        - in nm-connection-editor, edit the wifi connection to connect
automatically to the vpn connection when using the wifi connection
        - enable wifi OR turn on the computer with wifi enabled OR get out of
sleep with wifi enabled

Expected behaviour:
        connection to the wifi network and activation of the vpn

Actual behaviour:
        - "Activation of connection failed" notification in gnome
        - this in /var/log/syslog :

Jul  4 16:18:34 shark NetworkManager[668]: <info>  [1499177914.3918] policy:
set 'ssid' (wlan0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark dhclient[2914]: bound to 192.168.0.12 -- renewal in 18286
seconds.
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark NetworkManager[668]: <info>  [1499177914.4850] vpn-
connection[0x557e0e278740,c1f104ed-78af-4bd4-9a4d-a076e980dd8b,"openconnect_vpn",0]:
Started the VPN service, PID 2930
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark NetworkManager[668]: <info>  [1499177914.5079] vpn-
connection[0x557e0e278740,c1f104ed-78af-4bd4-9a4d-a076e980dd8b,"openconnect_vpn",0]:
Saw the service appear; activating connection

Jul  4 16:18:34 shark gvfsd-network[2201]: Couldn't create directory monitor on
smb://x-gnome-default-workgroup/. Error: El backend no soporta la operación
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark gvfsd[1150]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba:
Permiso denegado
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark gvfsd[1150]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba:
Permiso denegado
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark gvfsd[1150]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba:
Permiso denegado
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark gvfsd[1150]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba:
Permiso denegado
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark gvfsd[1150]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba:
Permiso denegado
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark gvfsd[1150]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba:
Permiso denegado
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark gvfsd[1150]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba:
Permiso denegado
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark gvfsd[1150]: mkdir failed on directory /var/cache/samba:
Permiso denegado

Jul  4 16:18:34 shark gnome-shell[1146]: JS LOG: Invalid connection type: vpn
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark gnome-shell[1146]: JS LOG: Invalid connection type: vpn
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark NetworkManager[668]: <error> [1499177914.6835] vpn-
connection[0x557e0e278740,c1f104ed-78af-4bd4-9a4d-a076e980dd8b,"openconnect_vpn",0]:
Failed to request VPN secrets #3: No agents were available for this request.
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark NetworkManager[668]: <info>  [1499177914.6836] device
(wlan0): state change: secondaries -> failed (reason 'secondary-connection-
failed') [90 120 54]
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark NetworkManager[668]: <info>  [1499177914.6839] manager:
NetworkManager state is now DISCONNECTED
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark NetworkManager[668]: <warn>  [1499177914.6850] device
(wlan0): Activation: failed for connection 'ssid'
Jul  4 16:18:34 shark NetworkManager[668]: <info>  [1499177914.6887] device
(wlan0): state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0]



This bug doesnt occur if nm-applet is running. According to nm-applet manpage,
it is normally started at login by the desktop session manager. However, on my
computer with automatic login at boot, it isn't the case, even after logging
out and then logging in.

This bug doesn't occur if I select the network in gnome settings or in the
settings menu at the top-right corner in gnome.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.utf8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=es_ES.utf8 (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-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.10.18-1
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.10.18-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]   0.26.0-2+b1
ii  gnome-shell [polkit-1-auth-agent]             3.22.3-3
ii  libatk1.0-0                                   2.22.0-1
ii  libc6                                         2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libcairo2                                     1.14.8-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                            2.36.5-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.50.3-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.22.11-1
ii  libjansson4                                   2.9-1
ii  libmm-glib0                                   1.6.4-1
ii  libnm0                                        1.6.2-3
ii  libnma0                                       1.4.4-1
ii  libnotify4                                    0.7.7-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                                1.40.5-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                           1.40.5-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                                 0.18.5-3.1
ii  network-manager                               1.6.2-3
ii  policykit-1-gnome [polkit-1-auth-agent]       0.105-6

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring                      3.20.0-3
ii  gnome-shell [notification-daemon]  3.22.3-3
ii  iso-codes                          3.75-1
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info     20161204-1
ii  notification-daemon                3.20.0-1+b1

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
ii  network-manager-openconnect-gnome  1.2.4-1
ii  network-manager-openvpn-gnome      1.2.8-2
pn  network-manager-pptp-gnome         <none>
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome         <none>

-- no debconf information

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