Bug 795427 - VPN/protected WiFi is broken: NetworkManager relies on ConsoleKit while its support is removed already from F17
Summary: VPN/protected WiFi is broken: NetworkManager relies on ConsoleKit while its s...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-20 13:59 UTC by Alexander Bokovoy
Modified: 2013-08-01 20:42 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 20:42:12 UTC
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Description Alexander Bokovoy 2012-02-20 13:59:13 UTC
Description of problem:

Removal of ConsoleKit support from xinit (ck-xinit-session) caused NetworkManager to not allow use of any password-protected connection. As result, unless ck-launch-session is run manually, on F17/Rawhide machines one cannot use protected WiFi or VPN connections.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786157 is a similar bug for kdm case.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666783 is upstream bug for CK removal. It also contains the patch that was committed upstream to allow selecting systemd session provider.

Please consider updating and rebuilding NetworkManager for F17/Rawhide or otherwise F17 is pretty useless as desktop environment without  local hacks.

Comment 1 Pavel Šimerda (pavlix) 2012-03-20 20:33:42 UTC
Please report NM version and/or test NetworkManager-0.9.3.997-0.7.fc17 from updates-testing repository.

Comment 2 Dan Williams 2012-03-21 15:22:39 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Please report NM version and/or test NetworkManager-0.9.3.997-0.7.fc17 from
> updates-testing repository.

Yeah, this should be fixed in recent builds for F17, at least since early March.

Comment 3 Alexander Bokovoy 2012-03-21 15:29:54 UTC
Thanks, I'll do update during weekend and check that. 

I'm changing status to MODIFIED as I can't keep it on needinfo.

Comment 4 Kjartan Maraas 2012-03-29 08:31:41 UTC
I don't see any way to configure a VPN connection in the current f17 builds. I have the following packages and their deps installed:

NetworkManager-glib-0.9.3.997-1.git20120321.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-openconnect-0.9.3.997-1.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-gnome-0.9.3.997-1.git20120321.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-openvpn-0.9.3.997-1.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-gtk-0.9.3.997-1.git20120321.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-0.9.3.997-1.git20120321.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-pptp-0.9.3.997-1.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.9.3.997-1.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-debuginfo-0.9.3.997-0.7.fc17.x86_64

Comment 5 Jirka Klimes 2012-03-30 10:40:42 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> I don't see any way to configure a VPN connection in the current f17 builds. I
> have the following packages and their deps installed:
> 
What kind of problem do you have? That should be fixed.

Comment 6 Kjartan Maraas 2012-03-31 09:07:32 UTC
I just can't find any option/menu/setting to configure a VPN connection at all.

Comment 7 Alexander Bokovoy 2012-04-01 11:48:19 UTC
Updated to 0.9.4.0-1.git20120328.fc17 and everything works now in XFCE, LXDE, OpenBox, KDE, and GNOME, including existing VPN connections.

Comment 8 Kjartan Maraas 2012-04-02 16:04:02 UTC
Which packages should I have installed to be able to set up a Cisco VPN here then? I used to have a menu entry for the VPNs in the NM menu in gnome-shell, but I don't see that any more.

Comment 9 Alexander Bokovoy 2012-04-02 18:38:24 UTC
I have openvpn and Cisco VPN working:
NetworkManager-glib-0.9.4.0-1.git20120328.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-openvpn-0.9.3.997-1.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-gnome-0.9.4.0-1.git20120328.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-pptp-0.9.3.997-1.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-0.9.4.0-1.git20120328.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.9.3.997-1.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-gtk-0.9.4.0-1.git20120328.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-openconnect-0.9.3.997-1.fc17.x86_64
vpnc-0.5.3-14.svn457.fc17.x86_64
vpnc-script-0.5.3-14.svn457.fc17.noarch

Comment 10 Jirka Klimes 2012-04-03 06:44:14 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> Which packages should I have installed to be able to set up a Cisco VPN here
> then? I used to have a menu entry for the VPNs in the NM menu in gnome-shell,
> but I don't see that any more.

The packages listed in comment #9 are fine. So are 0.9.3.997-1 ones.

You may have an issue with gnome-shell.
Are you able to configure VPNs using nm-connection-editor (Gnome-Shell Applications->Other->Network Connections and click VPN tab)?

rpm -q gnome-shell
rpm -q systemd

Comment 11 Kjartan Maraas 2012-04-04 07:39:30 UTC
After creating a new VPN-connection with nm-connection-editor all is well again and the AnyConnect VPN is working. I was sure there was a way to create a VPN-connection from the shell NM menu earlier? Maybe I'm remembering wrong...

Comment 12 Kjartan Maraas 2012-04-04 07:50:16 UTC
[kmaraas@localhost ~]$ rpm -q gnome-shell systemd
gnome-shell-3.4.0-1.fc17.x86_64
systemd-44-4.fc17.x86_64

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