Bug 285704 – gnome-extra/nm-applet-0.7.1_p20090824 will not enable Add button for VPN connection

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Leho Kraav (:macmaN @lkraav) 2009-09-20 13:50:59 UTC]

Portage 2.1.6.11 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-tuxonice-r4 i686)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.30-tuxonice-r4-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8400_@_3.00GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:00:02 +0000
distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7
dev-lang/python:     2.5.4-r2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openfire/resources/security/ /usr/lib/X11/xdm"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages keepwork parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/"
LANG="et_EE.utf8"
LC_ALL="et_EE.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="et"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/mornifle-gentoo-package /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 7zip X a52 aac aci acl acpi admin alsa apache2 apm autoipd avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddax cddb cdio cdr cgi cli consolekit cpudetection cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dga dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode esd evo fam fastcgi fbcondecor fbsplash ffmpeg firefox flac gd gdbm gif gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal httpd iconv id3tag isdnlog java java5 jikes joystick jpeg json laptop lcms ldap libnotify libv4l2 lirc lm_sensors lzo mad matroska md5sum mdnsresponder-compat mmx mmxext mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcmcia pcre pcsc-lite pdf pdo perl php png postgres ppds pppd python qt-static qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sasl sensord session skins speex spl sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification stream subversion svg sysfs test-programs tetex theora thunar tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode upnp usb utf8 v4l2 vhosts vorbis win32codecs x264 x86 xinerama xml xorg xrandr xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authnz_ldap authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="imon imonlcd" LINGUAS="et" LIRC_DEVICES="imon imon_knob imon_lcd imon_pad" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa intel fbdev"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

(20/09 16:43) root@machine ~ # equery l networkmanager
[ Searching for package 'networkmanager' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
[I--] [M~] net-misc/networkmanager-0.7.1_p20090824 (0)
[I--] [M~] net-misc/networkmanager-openvpn-0.7.1-r1 (0)
[I--] [M~] net-misc/networkmanager-pptp-0.7.1 (0)
[I--] [M~] net-misc/networkmanager-vpnc-0.7.1 (0)

however no matter what i do, Add button does not become enabled in the VPN tab. launching nm-applet as root does not help either, so it doesn't seem to be a permission or dbus etc. policy problem. googled through about 100 hits, most of the time the plugins were not installed, but this is obviously not the case here. any thoughts?

[Comment 1 Robert Piasek (RETIRED) 2009-09-21 21:09:37 UTC]

Do you have the same problem with NM-0.7.1-r6?

[Comment 2 Leho Kraav (:macmaN @lkraav) 2009-09-22 06:49:00 UTC]

downgrading to nm-0.7.1-r6 and later to nm-applet-0.7.1-r3 did not change anything.

[Comment 3 Arsen Shnurkov 2009-10-05 18:12:45 UTC]

This bug is also exists on Ubuntu - if you don't receive IP addres from DHCP - you can't use VPN