Bug 1509539

Summary:	NetworkManager vpnc plugin doesn't work
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Davide F Bragalone <dbragalo>
Component:	NetworkManager-vpnc	Assignee:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	epel7	CC:	code, dcbw, huzaifas, lkundrak, thaller
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Description Davide F Bragalone 2017-11-04 13:22:07 UTC

Description of problem:
NetworkManager vpnc plugin from EPEL repository doesn't work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# uname -r
3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64

# rpm -qa | egrep 'NetworkManager-[0-9]|vpnc'
vpnc-script-0.5.3-22.svn457.el7.noarch
NetworkManager-1.8.0-11.el7_4.x86_64
vpnc-0.5.3-22.svn457.el7.x86_64
NetworkManager-vpnc-1.0.8-1.el7.x86_64


How reproducible:
Once I've installed the packages for vpnc, if I try to configure the vpnc connection via NM gui the option to select VPNC is missing.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install NetworkManager-vpnc packages from EPEL
2. systemctl restart NetworkManager
3. nm-connection-editor -> Add

Actual results:
# nm-connection-editor 
** Message: vpn: (vpnc,/etc/NetworkManager/VPN/nm-vpnc-service.name) cannot load legacy-only plugin


Expected results:
Being able to configure vpnc connection.

Additional info:
Looks like a regression as it was working on RHEL6.3. Unfortunately I cannot be more detailed about packages version.

FYI, that there was already something similar reported for PPTP in BZ1467910, but I'm not sure if it's due to the same root cause or not.

Comment 1 Thomas Haller 2017-11-04 17:19:41 UTC

since nm-connection-editor is using libnm.so client library, it can no longer load plugins that link against the deprecated libnm-glib.so library.

You need to update the VPN plugin to a version that provides a plugin that links against libnm.so.

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-c6967768aa

Consider giving karma to the test package.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1491687 ***