"Error initializing editor" when trying to edit vpnc entry

[Janne Hyötylä]

Adding a new Cisco-VPN entry in NetworkManager works fine.
When trying to edit an entry, the following error gets displayed instead:

Error initializing editor
Method "GetSecrets" with signature "sasb" on interface "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSettings.Connection" doesn't exist

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Fri Sep 25 04:05:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nm-connection-editor
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
 192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.34 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 proto static
Package: network-manager-gnome 0.8~a~git.20090923t220421.1ac8ffd-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.35-generic
SourcePackage: network-manager-applet
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
WifiSyslog:
 Sep 25 02:07:22 moria NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state: completed -> group handshake
 Sep 25 02:07:22 moria NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state: group handshake -> completed

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

which package version of the vpn package are you using?

[Janne Hyötylä (janne-hyotyla)]

$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.8~a~git.20090923t064445.b20cef2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.8~a~git.20090923t064445.b20cef2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.8~a~git.20090923t064445.b20cef2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy network-manager-vpnc
network-manager-vpnc:
  Installed: 0.8~a~git.20090828t214328.099ab52-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.8~a~git.20090828t214328.099ab52-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.8~a~git.20090828t214328.099ab52-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ apt-cache policy vpnc
vpnc:
  Installed: 0.5.3-1
  Candidate: 0.5.3-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.3-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

dupe of bug 436884