NetworkManager crashed with signal 5 when attempting to connect to VPN

[Alexander Jones]

Binary package hint: network-manager

Whenever I try to connect to my VPN, with any login credentials, correct or not, NetworkManager crashes and the GNOME NetworkManager Applet hides away.

I have tried deleting and creating the VPN configuration for my account, but this does not fix it.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Thu Aug 9 17:27:03 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager
NonfreeKernelModules: cdrom
Package: network-manager 0.6.5-0ubuntu9
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --pid-file /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.pid
ProcCwd: /
ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: network-manager
Stacktrace:
 #0 0xb7e5cd2b in g_logv () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 #1 0xb7e5cfa9 in g_log () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 #2 0xb7e5d026 in g_assert_warning () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 #3 0x0807937d in ?? ()
 #4 0x00000000 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? ()
Title: NetworkManager crashed with signal 5
Uname: Linux flash 2.6.22-9-generic #1 SMP Fri Aug 3 00:50:37 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:nm_vpn_manager_vpn_connection_died (user_data=0x809be00) at nm-vpn-manager.c:447
g_idle_dispatch (source=0x809c908, callback=0xb7d9d170 <main_arena+48>, user_data=0x809be00) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.13.7/glib/gmain.c:4131
IA__g_main_context_dispatch (context=0x80973b8) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.13.7/glib/gmain.c:2061
g_main_context_iterate (context=0x80973b8, block=1, dispatch=1, self=0x8091fb0) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.13.7/glib/gmain.c:2694
IA__g_main_loop_run (loop=0x8097438) at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.13.7/glib/gmain.c:2898

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Hi,

how exactly do you setup your vpn connection? Does network-manager work otherwise?

Thanks,

 - Alexander

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

In answer to your questions:

I set it up by the VPN configuration tool that NM starts when you go to "Configure VPN...".

It seems to work fine otherwise.

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

The type of VPN is PPTP.

Can anyone confirm that PPTP is working at all?

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

After installing "vpnc" (not network-manager-vpnc), I now get this.

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

 changed vpn1.ic.ac.uk to vpn.ic.ac.uk
 i changed it back to a bogus address and it crashes again
 ** Message: <information> Could not resolve VPN servers IP.

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

Too many bugs. I'm going to report the individual problems.

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

DNS failure bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/134544

[Alexander Jones (alex-weej)]

Bad pptp plugin sofile: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-pptp/+bug/134547