[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#885525: /usr/bin/nm-applet: nm-applet crashes when connecting to VPN

[Russell Klopfer]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 1.8.10-1
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/nm-applet

Dear Maintainer,

nm-applet crashes when attempting to connect to vpn via with `nmcli connection up MyVPN` 

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_object_unref+0x1a2)[0x7f298f345ea2]
nm-applet(+0x1629c)[0x5582079e129c]
nm-applet(+0x198fc)[0x5582079e48fc]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x47724)[0x7f298f064724]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x155)[0x7f298f067e15]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0x4b1e0)[0x7f298f0681e0]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_iteration+0x2c)[0x7f298f06826c]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0(g_application_run+0x1fd)[0x7f298f625bed]
nm-applet(+0x101b1)[0x5582079db1b1]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf1)[0x7f298ea7c561]
nm-applet(+0x102da)[0x5582079db2da]
======= Memory map: ========
5582079cb000-558207a13000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 5377768                    /usr/bin/nm-applet
558207c13000-558207c14000 r--p 00048000 08:01 5377768                    /usr/bin/nm-applet
558207c14000-558207c16000 rw-p 00049000 08:01 5377768                    /usr/bin/nm-applet
558208d5e000-55820918d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [heap]
7f296c000000-7f296c022000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f296c022000-7f2970000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f2970000000-7f2970021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f2970021000-7f2974000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 
7f2974000000-7f2974022000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (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]  1.12.2-1
ii  dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus]                   1.12.2-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]   0.26.1-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                   2.26.1-2
ii  libc6                                         2.25-5
ii  libcairo2                                     1.15.8-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                            2.36.11-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                  2.54.2-4
ii  libgtk-3-0                                    3.22.26-2
ii  libjansson4                                   2.10-1
ii  libmm-glib0                                   1.6.8-2
ii  libnm0                                        1.10.2-1
ii  libnma0                                       1.8.10-1
ii  libnotify4                                    0.7.7-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0                                1.40.14-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                           1.40.14-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                                 0.18.5-5
ii  libselinux1                                   2.7-2
ii  network-manager                               1.10.2-1
ii  policykit-1-gnome [polkit-1-auth-agent]       0.105-6

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  dunst [notification-daemon]          1.2.0-2
ii  gnome-keyring                        3.20.1-2
ii  iso-codes                            3.77-1
ii  mobile-broadband-provider-info       20170903-1
ii  notification-daemon                  3.20.0-2
ii  xfce4-notifyd [notification-daemon]  0.4.1-1

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

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