Bug 967743

Summary: Cannot reconnect to VPN
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: admiller, dcbw, fmuellner, joe, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description David Woodhouse 2013-05-28 08:33:56 UTC 
When my VPN session times out and the server disconnects me, I can no longer reconect. The VPN is displayed in the list of networks, with 'connection failed' where the switch should be to allow me to connect.

In order to connect to the VPN again, I need to restart gnome-shell.

May 26 10:03:24 i7 openconnect[9492]: Received server disconnect: b0 'Max time exceeded'
May 26 10:03:24 i7 openconnect[9492]: Send BYE packet: Server request
May 26 10:03:25 i7 NetworkManager[1608]: <info> Policy set 'Auto eth0' (eth0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS.
May 26 10:03:25 i7 dbus-daemon[1531]: dbus[1531]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper)
May 26 10:03:25 i7 dbus[1531]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper)
May 26 10:03:25 i7 NetworkManager[1608]: <warn> error disconnecting VPN: Could not process the request because no VPN connection was active.
May 26 10:03:25 i7 NetworkManager[1608]: <warn> (17) failed to find interface name for index
May 26 10:03:25 i7 NetworkManager[1608]: nm_system_iface_flush_routes: assertion `iface != NULL' failed
May 26 10:03:25 i7 NetworkManager[1608]: <warn> (17) failed to find interface name for index
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: TypeError: obj.active is undefined
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: JS ERROR: !!!     message = '"obj.active is undefined"'
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = '"/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/status/network.js"'
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '1564'
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: JS ERROR: !!!     stack = '"([object GObject_Object])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/status/network.js:1564
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: wrapper([object GObject_Object])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:213
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: ()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/status/network.js:2031
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: wrapper()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:213
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: ()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/status/network.js:2292
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: wrapper()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:213
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: ([object GObject_Object],[object GObject_ParamSpec])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/status/network.js:2128
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '1564'
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: JS ERROR: !!!     stack = '"([object GObject_Object])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/status/network.js:1564
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: wrapper([object GObject_Object])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:213
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: ()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/status/network.js:2031
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: wrapper()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:213
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: ([object GObject_Object],[object GObject_ParamSpec])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/status/network.js:2292
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: wrapper([object GObject_Object],[object GObject_ParamSpec])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:213
May 26 10:03:25 i7 /etc/gdm/Xsession[2647]: "'
May 26 10:03:26 i7 dbus-daemon[1531]: dbus[1531]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher'
May 26 10:03:26 i7 dbus[1531]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher'
May 26 10:03:31 i7 NetworkManager[1608]: <info> VPN service 'openconnect' disappeared
Comment 1 Joe Wrigley 2013-07-26 10:25:44 UTC 
I have had this problem, too.

I worked around it by calling the connection via nmcli:

$ nmcli connection
NAME                      UUID                                   TYPE              TIMESTAMP-REAL                    
<NAME>                    b6c3178c-42eb-4b16-89e1-50e5e35a6e0f   vpn               Fri 26 Jul 2013 11:21:14 BST     

$ nmcli /usr/bin/nmcli connection up uuid b6c3178c-42eb-4b16-89e1-50e5e35a6e0f
Comment 2 Dan Williams 2013-09-20 20:27:28 UTC 
Should actually be caused by the shell's checkConnection() handling, thus duping to that bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 980467 ***