GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 698215
VPN plugins aren't working
Last modified: 2013-04-22 16:00:34 UTC
gnome-control-center 3.8.1 with gnome-setitngs-daemon 3.7.92 on Ubuntu 13.04 network-manager and network-manager-applet 0.9.8 Originally reported at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2136335 1. Open the Network panel 2. Click the + in the bottom panel 3. Select VPN What happens ------------ The only option is "Import from file…". After building and installing network-manager-openvpn and -vpnc 0.9.8 and logging out and back in, I have the same problem. Command line output ------------------- (gnome-control-center:5288): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory. This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set. The overwriting error message was: Cannot load the VPN plugin which provides the service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn'. (gnome-control-center:5288): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory. This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set. The overwriting error message was: Cannot load the VPN plugin which provides the service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc'.
The broken error reporting is already mentioned in bug 692922. As for the errors themselves, looks like a problem with the system installation (D-Bus not finding the .conf files associated with the VPN plugins, or NM not finding other config files related to VPN). Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 692922 ***