Bug 1608851

Summary:	VPN connection cannot be activated with nm-applet used in xfce4
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac>
Component:	network-manager-applet	Assignee:	Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	29	CC:	bgalvani, blueowl, dcbw, lkundrak, thaller
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Description Zdenek Kabelac 2018-07-26 11:50:50 UTC

Description of problem:

It looks for a longer period of time my VPN connection cannot be activate via nm-applet used in  xfce4.

VPN connection can be normally started in  gnomesession.
Also VPN can be started on cmdline via:  

"nmcli con up "VPN-Connection-Name"

Only apple cannot start it and logs:

(nm-applet:1302): nm-applet-WARNING **: xx:xx:xx.xxx: VPN Connection activation failed: (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.UnknownDevice) Cannot specify device when activating VPN

My naive assumption is - this oldish applet need some update for newer NM API.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
network-manager-applet-1.8.14-1.fc29.1.x86_64

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Comment 1 Jan Kurik 2018-08-14 08:40:54 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle.
Changing version to '29'.

Comment 2 Beniamino Galvani 2018-08-21 11:56:20 UTC

Hi. This should be fixed by NetworkManager commit:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=e205664ba8c25939f1678d1b078a67989c180046

available in NM 1.12.2.