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 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle. Changing version to '29'.
Hi. This should be fixed by NetworkManager commit: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=e205664ba8c25939f1678d1b078a67989c180046 available in NM 1.12.2.