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

[Michael Biebl]

severity 680963 serious
clone 680963 -1
reassign -1 gnome-shell
retitle -1 run vpn authentication dialogs from correct path
thanks

On 16.07.2012 05:33, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 03:57:13PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>> I never get the VPN dialog anymore, not even with the method described
>>> in the first post.
>>
>> Ok, so it is even worse with this patch applied :-/
>>
>> Thanks for testing the patched packages anyway.
> 
> I just started testing the 0.9.6-rc1 packages in experimental and I am
> seeing this same behavior there as well.  And only with gnome3, with the
> fallback session the auth dialog comes up as usual.
> 
> The following workaround works for me:
> 
>     cd /usr/lib/gnome-shell
>     ln -s ../NetworkManager/nm-openconnect-auth-dialog
> 
> and then restart gnome-shell or log out and log in.  This seems to be
> the only path where gnome-shell is looking for the auth-dialog
> executable [1].
> 
> [1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/js/ui/networkAgent.js#n681
> 

So it seems we need two fixes here:
1/ nm-applet needs to reliably disable itself if gnome-shell is used
2/ gnome-shell needs to look at the right place for the authentication
dialogs.

Problem 2/ is most likely caused by Redhat distros using $libexecdir:
/usr/lib/gnome-shell → /usr/libexec and
/usr/lib/NetworkManager → /usr/libexec


For 2/ I've cloned and reassigned this bug and I'm marking them as
release critical, since we need to fix this for wheezy.

Thanks everyone for helping tracking this down.

Michael
-- 
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