Cannot use network-manager-vpnc

[Thomas Novin]

Binary package hint: network-manager-vpnc

If I try to connect to a VPNC connection from nm-applet:

Cannot start VPN connection 'X'

There was a problem launching the authentication dialog for VPN connection type
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc'. Contact your system administrator.

If I try to edit a connection via nm-applet:

Could not edit connection

Could not find VPN plugin service for 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc'.

If I try to add a connection:

VPNC is not available, only PPTP.

I added this on Bugzilla a couple of weeks ago but nothing has happened. We are getting closer to Lucid release so I thought it would be wise to add it here as well.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 16 16:13:18 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: network-manager-vpnc 0.8-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_DK.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: network-manager-vpnc
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686

[Simon (simon-west-family)]

Me-too - I use a couple of VPNs all the time and having to switch back to command-line to stop one and start the other is not good (although I still have a Jaunty install on my main machine). Let me know if this bug needs any info from my machine (logs/config) or to test.

[froynlaven (froynlaven)]

upgrade (invoked and completed successfully 25-Mar-2010 15:00 EDT), ubuntustudio 9.10 (karmic koala) 64bit --> ["update-manager -d"] --> ubuntustudio 10.04 (lucid lynx) beta1 64bit.

Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-10-rt root=UUID=[obfuscated] ro quiet splash

while gathering data to post here, noticed this bug appears to be a dup of bug #534343 https://launchpad.net/bugs/534343

issue resolved for me by installing network-manager-vpnc-gnome
this should be addressed during ubuntu upgrade

[Simon (simon-west-family)]

Cool - installed network-manager-vpnc-gnome and vpnc now works as expected. One more ticked off the list!

[Thomas Novin (thomasn80)]

Same here, network-manager-vpnc-gnome had been uninstalled (or is it a new package?)

[Sebastian Geiger (lanoxx)]

I can confirm this bug. The upgrade to lucid should not remove the 'network-manager-vpnc-gnome' package! I installed it and it works fine imediately? If the network manager applet interfaces with packagekit maybe we could have it installed automatically it its not there? But better would be of course not to remove it in the first place. Or was this handled somehow different and network-manager-vpnc-gnome is a new package?

Anyway since we know the solution this bug should me marked as in progress i guess?
Cheers Lanoxx

[Thomas Novin (thomasn80)]

No I don't think so, it should be confirmed, not in progress. In progress means that someone is fixing it..

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

ThomasNovin, in progress is correct in this case since it is actually being worked on :)

All, network-manager-vpnc-gnome is a new package, it needs to be installed alongside of network-manager-vpnc, and basically splits the UI bits so that KDE users don't pull in extra dependencies.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

ThomasNovin, if you can confirm that with network-manager-vpnc-gnome, the VPN works again properly, please either mark this bug as a duplicate of bug 534343 or add a comment back here so that I can do it. Thanks!