[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#680963: Bug#680963: network-manager-gnome: Cannot connect to VPN with nm-applet

[Florian]

On 07/09/2012 06:02 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 09.07.2012 16:58, Florian wrote:
>> On 07/09/2012 05:50 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>> On 09.07.2012 16:39, Florian wrote:
>>>> Package: network-manager-gnome
>>>> Version: 0.9.4.1-1+b1
>>>> Severity: normal
>>>>
>>>> Selecting a VPN connection in nm-applet does nothing, no dialog pops up.
>>>
> 
> Works fine here. nm-applet is correctly started during log in and I get
> the dialogs when establishing a VPN connection.
> 
> There might be a race condition somewhere when gnome-shell and nm-applet
> are started during session startup.
> 
> Could you try the patch mentioned in the lp bug, i.e.
> 
> 
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/commit/?id=0c997a95d5b82ea6733e001478db1e2490b49575
> 


Unfortunately I get a compile error with the patch applied:

nm_applet-applet.o: In function `shell_version_changed_cb':
/home/fl/tmp/network-manager-applet-0.9.4.1/src/applet.c:3258: undefined
reference to `nm_shell_watcher_version_at_least'
nm_applet-applet.o: In function `constructor':
/home/fl/tmp/network-manager-applet-0.9.4.1/src/applet.c:3432: undefined
reference to `nm_shell_watcher_new'
nm_applet-applet.o: In function `applet_agent_registered_cb':
/home/fl/tmp/network-manager-applet-0.9.4.1/src/applet.c:2959: undefined
reference to `nm_shell_watcher_version_at_least'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I do not have the time and knowledge to fix this.

Further observations:
The bug didn't occur this time after starting gnome-shell, but the error
message in syslog as stated in the original report was there anyway;
that error seems to be something else obviously.

I can trigger the bug in the same way as described in the launchpad bug
entry, i.e.:

killall nm-applet
nm-applet &

Then the VPN dialog is not opening anymore.

Hope that helps.