[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#604002: network-manager-vpnc: vpnc always crashes when enabled

[Paul Millar]

Package: network-manager-vpnc
Version: 0.8.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream


I am running Debain Sid.

The KDE system tray utility knetworkmanager (package as network-manager-kde) provides 
the ability to control a computer's network connections via the network-manager 
framework.  One part of this framework is support for Cisco VPN.

I have configured a Cisco VPN connection and the knetworkmanager tray shows this 
option when I right-click on the system-tray icon.  By default, the VPN is not 
enabled, but can be enabled by selecting the VPN in the knetworkmanager display (shown 
when I right-click on the system-tray item).  When I enable the Cisco VPN, the 
knetworkmanager crashes.  It does this every time I enable the Cisco VPN.

It is unclear to me whether the problem is with the network-manager-kde package or the 
network-manager-vpnc package.

The Cisco settings I have configured has worked in the past (with a previous version 
of the software), so I suspect that either the API of the vpnc package has changed or 
the KDE network-manager package has introduced a bug.

I have seen a couple of upstream bugs that sound similar to this issue in the KDE bug 
tracker.  They are for different distributions, so I believe this issue is not 
Debian-specific.

Cheers,

Paul.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager-vpnc depends on:
ii  libc6                      2.11.2-7      Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                1.2.24-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.88-2        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.24.2-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1            0.8.1-3       network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-glib2                0.8.1-3       network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                0.8.1-3       network management framework (shar
ii  vpnc                       0.5.3r449-2.1 Cisco-compatible VPN client

network-manager-vpnc recommends no packages.

network-manager-vpnc suggests no packages.

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