[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] network-manager-pptp not working as expected

[Miki Obradovic]

dear developers,
to start off - thank you so much for all your efforts and work and in 
producing such wonderful open source software - way to go! it will 
change the world, "soon" we'll have open source everything, it is only 
starting but it will eventually conquer engineering, you'll see - and 
you are my heroes!

if you have some time - i have a question. on my 14.04 i can not connect 
to a windows VPN server and after hours i have seemingly exhausted all 
online suggestions - still nothing works.

here is my syslog with possibly relevant error messages.. let me know 
how i can help debug this problem - any comments much appreciated, and 
if you don't have time - no worries - all good!

Jan 15 15:30:39 baselab NetworkManager[808]: <info> Starting VPN service 
'pptp'...
Jan 15 15:30:39 baselab NetworkManager[808]: <info> VPN service 'pptp' 
started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 4152
Jan 15 15:30:39 baselab NetworkManager[808]: <info> VPN service 'pptp' 
appeared; activating connections
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab NetworkManager[808]: <info> VPN plugin state 
changed: starting (3)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab NetworkManager[808]: <info> VPN connection 
'VPNBEDROCKGROUP' (Connect) reply received.
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: Plugin 
/usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so loaded.
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: pppd options in effect:
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: debug#011#011# (from /etc/ppp/options)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: nodetach#011#011# (from command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: dump#011#011# (from /etc/ppp/options)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: plugin 
/usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so#011#011# (from command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: noauth#011#011# (from command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: refuse-pap#011#011# (from command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: refuse-chap#011#011# (from command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: refuse-eap#011#011# (from command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: user mio#011#011# (from command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: #011#011# (from command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: pty /usr/sbin/pptp 149.5.216.82 
--nolaunchpppd --loglevel 0 --logstring nm-pptp-service-4152#011#011# 
(from command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: crtscts#011#011# (from /etc/ppp/options)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: #011#011# (from /etc/ppp/options)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: asyncmap 0#011#011# (from 
/etc/ppp/options)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: silent#011#011# (from /etc/ppp/options)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: lcp-echo-failure 0#011#011# (from 
command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: lcp-echo-interval 0#011#011# (from 
command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: hide-password#011#011# (from 
/etc/ppp/options)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: novj#011#011# (from command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: ipparam 
nm-pptp-service-4152#011#011# (from command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: noipdefault#011#011# (from command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: nodefaultroute#011#011# (from 
command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: usepeerdns#011#011# (from command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: nobsdcomp#011#011# (from command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: nodeflate#011#011# (from command line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: require-mppe#011#011# (from command 
line)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: noipx#011#011# (from /etc/ppp/options)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: using channel 3
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: Using interface ppp0
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pppd[4156]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/14
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab pptp[4161]: nm-pptp-service-4152 
log[main:pptp.c:314]: The synchronous pptp option is NOT activated
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab NetworkManager[808]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: 
devices added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0)
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab NetworkManager[808]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: 
device added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0): no 
ifupdown configuration found.
Jan 15 15:30:40 baselab NetworkManager[808]: <warn> 
/sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0: couldn't determine device driver; ignoring...
Jan 15 15:30:34 baselab wpa_supplicant[1290]: message repeated 2 times: 
[ wlan1: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-STARTED ]
Jan 15 15:31:13 baselab wpa_supplicant[1290]: wlan1: WPA: Group rekeying 
completed with 00:1e:52:7b:45:88 [GTK=TKIP]
Jan 15 15:31:20 baselab NetworkManager[808]: <warn> VPN connection 
'VPNBEDROCKGROUP' (IP Config Get) timeout exceeded.
Jan 15 15:31:20 baselab NetworkManager[808]: <info> Policy set 'Bedrock' 
(wlan1) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS.
Jan 15 15:31:20 baselab pppd[4156]: Terminating on signal 15
Jan 15 15:31:20 baselab pppd[4156]: Connection terminated.
Jan 15 15:31:20 baselab NetworkManager[808]:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: 
devices removed (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/ppp0, iface: ppp0)
Jan 15 15:31:20 baselab pppd[4156]: Child process /usr/sbin/pptp 
149.5.216.82 --nolaunchpppd --loglevel 0 --logstring 
nm-pptp-service-4152 (pid 4158) terminated with signal 15
Jan 15 15:31:20 baselab pppd[4156]: Exit.