network-manager-openconnect, was Re: Error messages / traceroute

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 12:08 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 12:55 +0100, Johannes Becker wrote:
> > I tried the ubuntu 9.10 live CD. I installed the ubuntu packages
> > 
> > network-manager-openconnect Version: 
> > 0.8~a~git.20090828t161429.dfe1b50-0ubuntu2
> > 
> > openconnect Version: 2.01-1
> 
> I think you may need to reboot (or at least restart NM and dbus-daemon)
> before the new NetworkManager plugin works.

Yeah, the rebooting sucks.  All it takes is an inotify watch
on /etc/NetworkManager/VPN/ and a reconciliation of the new on-disk set
to the current in-memory set of VPN services and we're there.  It's been
a longstanding enhancement request, but nobody has gotten around to it
yet.

If anyone wants to take this, there's tons of example inotify code in
NetworkManager's system-settings plugins you could work from.  Or just
use the new GLib directory monitor objects or something.

Dan

> > You are asked to fill in a gateway and a username.
> > There is no field for a password.
> 
> That's expected. The authentication dialog asks you for a password when
> you connect.
> 
> > If you click on the configured vpn-connection, there is an error message 
> > about invalid VPN-Secrets  (as it translates from German to English)
> 
> Yeah, NetworkManager says that for just about every error, instead of
> something sensible :)
> 
> > If you start nm-applet in a terminal, you get during the configuration
> > process:
> > 
> >  ** (nm-connection-editor:3183): WARNING **: Invalid setting VPN: gateway
> > 
> > and while trying to connect:
> > 
> > ** (nm-applet:3163): WARNING **: _nm_object_get_property: Error 
> > getting 'State' for /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/4: 
> > Method "Get" with signature "ss" on 
> > interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" doesn't exist
> 
> If this persists after a reboot, networkmanager-list at gnome.org is
> probably the best place to continue.
>