Network Manager 0.7 fails connecting to PPTP

Bug #273702 reported by kaman
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: network-manager-pptp

Network Manager reports "The VPN connection 'corbina' failed because the VPN service failed to start." when I try to connect to my ISP's PPTP server. Manual connection with pppd & pptp to this server runs successfully.

kaman@step-up:~$ apt-cache policy network-manager-openvpn
network-manager-openvpn:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20080908t183521a-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20080908t183521a-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20080908t183521a-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

kaman@step-up:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

syslog:
Sep 23 23:11:02 step-up NetworkManager: <info> Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp'...
Sep 23 23:11:02 step-up NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 7128
Sep 23 23:11:02 step-up NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' just appeared, activating connections
Sep 23 23:11:02 step-up NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1
Sep 23 23:11:02 step-up NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3
Sep 23 23:11:02 step-up NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'corbina' (Connect) reply received.
Sep 23 23:11:02 step-up NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_vpn_connection_connect_cb(): VPN connection 'corbina' failed to connect: 'No VPN configuration options.'.

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kaman (kaman120) wrote :

Installation on hardy (from deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/network-manager/ubuntu hardy main) gives the same result:

kaman@step-up:/var/log$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

kaman@step-up:/var/log$ apt-cache policy network-manager network-manager-pptp
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20080908t183521+eni0-0ubuntu4~nm1~hardy1
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20080908t183521+eni0-0ubuntu4~nm1~hardy1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20080908t183521+eni0-0ubuntu4~nm1~hardy1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.6.6-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
network-manager-pptp:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20080908t183521-0ubuntu1~nm1~hardy1
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20080908t183521-0ubuntu1~nm1~hardy1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20080908t183521-0ubuntu1~nm1~hardy1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.6.5+svnhead2574-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages

syslog:
Sep 24 13:50:11 step-up NetworkManager: <info> Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp'...
Sep 24 13:50:11 step-up NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 6054
Sep 24 13:50:11 step-up NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' just appeared, activating connections
Sep 24 13:50:11 step-up NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp' just appeared, activating connections
Sep 24 13:50:11 step-up NetworkManager: nm_vpn_connection_activate: assertion `nm_vpn_connection_get_vpn_state (connection) == NM_VPN_CONNECTION_STATE_PREPARE' failed
Sep 24 13:50:11 step-up NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3
Sep 24 13:50:11 step-up NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'VPN-соединение 1' (Connect) reply received.
Sep 24 13:50:11 step-up NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_vpn_connection_connect_cb(): VPN connection 'VPN-соединение 1' failed to connect: 'No VPN configuration options.'.
Sep 24 13:50:11 step-up NetworkManager: <WARN> connection_state_changed(): Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.

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