Description of problem: I don't feel like filing individual bugs for all the problems I found so I list them here because I'm lazy 1 - if my username and vpnc username are different and I forget to check the little box that allows me to change it, I'm screwed. No way to know it failed or why it failed. 2 - logging into vpnc takes foooorrreeeeevvveeer. It's faster to run the command line script and hand edit the /etc/resolv.conf file than it is to wait for the gui to finish. 3 - what is with the error 'VPNC software not found'?? How is that supposed to trigger my memory to yum install NetworkManager-vpnc and re-run the vpnc setup on NetworkManager Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0-0.4.svn3030.fc8 How reproducible: reliably Steps to Reproduce: 1.create user account with different vpnc username 2. forget to tell that to the vpnc config file 3. connect 4. wait foooorrrreeeeevvvveeeer 5. scratch your head after 10 minutes wondering if you are connected or not Actual results: ugh Expected results: yeah! Additional info: i hate filing bzs
1. There are issues reporting failed login errors, I'll look into that. As for not telling you about the wrong username, that's very much the expected behavior. Ssh wouldn't tell you if you used the wrong username. 2. I have no idea why. It's not that slow for me. 3. "no suitable vpn software found on your system". that doesn't trigger your memory to instal it ? Granted, it could include buttons to the appropriate pirut install commands, or something like that.
Commenting in regards to 1. I understand ssh won't tell me that. But it does tell that it failed. What I was hoping to see or would like to suggest is, upon such failures a little window pops up (much like the succesful-connection window) that states - the user was unable to connect - displays the username@machine (to allow the user to easily see typos) - suggest a possible reason or three why this happened and what the user should double check The silent failure and forgetting that I had a different username were the causes of my frustration. Some failure messages would allow me to quickly see that I was an idiot. This would have also helped a co-worker resolve his problem instead of walking around stating the NetworkManager is still broken on F7 and he will try F8. 2. I don't have anything to suggest for this. I was just reporting a 'feel' for how things were working for me. Not sure how you want to handle that. 3. Actually believe it or not, no it doesn't trigger my memory. The reason why is because I didn't know _what_ to install. Luckily I have some 'yum kungfu' and a quick search revealed the networkmanager-vpnc rpm. But if Grandma wanted to vpn into her Cookie Baking Business, I'm not sure she would be able to figure it out. Like you said perhaps a suggestion would help out. Granted these issues aren't really *technical* problems, but more along the line of *usability* issues. To me the big reason why Ubuntu is doing as well as they are, is the fact they are trying to iron out the usability problems. Fedora has this legacy of being a *geek's* toy. Now I don't mean to pick on nm-vpnc about this (I picked on yum too a little). A lot of packages have these issues, I just happened to run into nm-vpnc first because it was important to me. I hope this helps. Cheers, Don
There's already a bug filed for the failed logins not reported correctly, so I'll close this. The other issues would be better reported upstream directly. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 331141 ***